Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Work-Life Balance
About staying connected to my self, to
my values, to the relationships I create along the way and to work and actions
Balance
About living authentically Doing work that feels intrinsically rewarding What matters is that the person undertakes
his/her work with integrity Balance also requires us to pay attention to our connections to family, to friends, to our self Remembering to breath
Balance
When I take time to take care of my own
health, my needs for rest, exercise, giving my body good food making time for the people I love Remembering that the work I do is important but it is not my whole life I keep my balance and my connections to others replenish and sustain me.
Education and
international work
Nursing
Family influence Nurses who led the way Values match Witches, Midwives and Nurses Outlines struggles women have faced in
attempting to comfort, health and seek education to practice as health professionals
Women as Healers
1400s - source of healing was religious men messengers of God (priests) women who were healers were therefore
witches ergo - burn them Science education and university male domain Nurses were poorly educated, underprivileged backgrounds
Nursing Development
Florence Nightingale helped to elevate Nursing "No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other
definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do so for a horse. It will not do for a nurse (1859).
hygiene, environmental health factors, healing, nutrition, and psychological well-being through her diligent collection of data and statistical analysis
Nursing as a Profession
Practice according to Nursing Act Most often at the patient's bedside 24 hours/day Make astute observations, triage patients in
emergency departments, provide care to individuals with increasing complex health problems, and employ more technically complex procedures than ever before Manage finite health care resources Nurse in hospitals, community clinics, people's homes, on oil rigs, in factories, in refugee camps, in prisons and in war zones Need to be well educated, well remunerated and recognised for the valuable work they do
Palliative Care
DVC Role
fortunate to work with talented, passionate
people who are undertaking research that matters and educating the next generation of researchers and science will contribute solutions to world problems. Professor Peter Newman, Svetha Venkatesh, Robert Amin, Moyez Jiwa, Vishnu Pareek, Tony Owen, Anna Heitz, and Dani Stehlik are examples.
Let go of perfection it is the enemy of good, Let go of your arrogance that you can do it all
and ask for help
will wear you out and make you inpatient with others
Look for the joke Pay attention to the people in your lives