1. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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

2. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch O UTLINE The Paradox of the Present The Trends and Challenges of Tomorrow The Future of Our Profession –Professional Practice –Regulation –Socio-economic welfare

3. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Archimedes - 220 BC Mechanics Magazine published in in 1824

4. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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)

5. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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)

6. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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)

7. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch The Burden of tomorrow

8. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Implication 2050?

9. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch China’s past and future population pyramid

10. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Globalization

11. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Disasters & Climate Change

12. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Technology

13. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch

14. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Pillars Professional Practice Regulation Socio-Economic Welfare

15. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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

16. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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

17. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch 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

18. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch “What shapes the future is not what we have in common but the interplay of our differences.” SHELL 2001 GLOBAL SCENARIOS

19. ICN - Advancing nursing and health worldwide www.icn.ch Just in Case You Want to Move the World http://www.starstryder.com/2008/02/18/with-a-lever-i-move-the-earth/