ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Future of Nursing from an International Perspective David C. Benton Chief Executive Officer International Council of Nurses South Pacific Nurses Forum Melbourne, Australia 19 November 2012
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide O UTLINE The Paradox of the Present The Trends and Challenges of Tomorrow The Future of Our Profession –Professional Practice –Regulation –Socio-economic welfare
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Archimedes BC Mechanics Magazine published in in 1824
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Paradox (i) More Money & continued scarcity of resources Emphasis on Prevention & Demand for Cure Centralisation & growing local diversity Reliance on Professionalism & Lay Assertiveness Adapted from Warner et al (1998)
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Paradox (ii) High Tech & Complementary Approaches Educated, Assertive Patients & Less Informed Blurring Boundaries & Separate Professions Dominance of Hospital & Care Closer to Home Adapted from Warner et al (1998)
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Paradox (iii) High Tech Interventions & Humanistic Care Diseases of Old Age & Demands of The Young Moral Certainties & New Horizons The Core of Nursing & Social Change Adapted from Warner et al (1998)
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide The Burden of tomorrow
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Implication 2050?
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide China’s past and future population pyramid
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Globalization
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Disasters & Climate Change
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Technology
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Pillars Professional Practice Regulation Socio-Economic Welfare
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Professional Practice Inter-professional team based practice Technology, connects and extends practice –Virtual services and communities of practice Increase in nurse entrepreneurs –Health and Social Care –Wellbeing and health improvement
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Regulation BSN is base qualification for RN MSN is base qualification for Advanced Practice Continuing Competence is a dynamic process Nursing rather than the Nurse to become the focus of regulation
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Socio-Economic Welfare Retirement Age Will Increase –Nurses as part of care environment design NNAs and Unions embrace and lead the development of practice continuum Workload planning, outcomes & PPE measurement informed by real time systems Trade agreements and migration the focus for corporate business
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide “What shapes the future is not what we have in common but the interplay of our differences.” SHELL 2001 GLOBAL SCENARIOS
ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide Just in Case You Want to Move the World