NURSING LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE

N 491:22

Class 1

January 6, 2010

Judith Anne Shaw, Ph.D., R.N.

CONSIDER- - -

What entities contribute to either change or no change in the future of health care?

Four Areas Likely to Change

1. Technology

2. Disease Trajectories

3. Drastic Scarcity of Resources

4. Complexity in Every Arena of Life

1. Technology

Rapid changes occurring in technology, health care technology

2. Disease Trajectories

Changes in disease patterns

3. Drastic Scarcity of Resources

Consider: food, clean water, productive land, dwindling rain forests

fostering unique species of fauna and flora, limited or extinct species of fish and mammals

4. Complexity in Every Arena of Life

work load multiple roles escalating availability & short-life of useful

knowledge necessity for multiple changes within one’s

personal life information explosion more pluralistic society

Four Areas NOT Likely to Change

1. Patriarchal Dominance

2. Oppression

3. Human Demand for Freedom &

Improved Quality of Life

4. Desire for Connection & Meaning

1. Patriarchal Dominance

Consider the conceptualizations:

the ‘glass ceiling’ women in business encounter male dominance in the health care system ask yourself, “what is considered male work?”,

“what is considered female work?”

2. Oppression

A system of dominance-submission

doers and thinkers

us and them

me against the world

The most powerful tool sustaining oppressive

relationships?

KNOWLEDGE

Remember, the many ways of knowing

TraditionsAuthorityBorrowingTrial & ErrorPersonal ExperienceRole-Modeling IntuitionReasoningResearch

What controls gaining knowledge?

3. Human Demand for Freedom & Improved Quality of Life

4. Desire for Connection and Meaning

Windows

of

Opportunity

for

Nurses

Ethical basis for making decisions

Value basis for health & healing

Shifting from individual to collectivism, value diversity

TO DO LIST1. Create images of what we think health and

healing are for the future.

Complete the statement:

Health is...

2. Learn to trust your own intuitive processes and genuine human responsiveness.

3. Remain client centered while striving for clinical expertise & technology

Value & knowhuman care and

caring

Create peace in relationship with one another

Future Challenges

for

Canadian Nursing:

Practice, Education

&

Research

Nursing knowledge

Doctoral programs in nursing

Masters degree preparation

Baccalaureate Entry Level for Practice

Restructure the health care system

?

What are the greatest achievements?

…those that benefit others!