Nurse and course tutor Hannah explores how Freedom to Nurse and to Be Nursed can not only be preserved, but also re-enlivened for the future.

IThe Art and Practice of Nursing has, necessarily changed significantly throughout the last one hundred years.

This change has not occurred in isolation, but in and through a larger societal and cultural shift reflected within the Medical field as a whole. Changing demographics and altered patterns of health and Illness have formed part of this change.

What is clear, is that whilst some of these changes are to be welcomed, such as the fact that Nurses have a far more collaborative, collegial partnership with their closest Medical Colleagues and allied healthcare professions, the Vocation of Nursing is suffering in our time, it hardly being possible in many circumstances to Nurse in alignment with the essence of this Art.

Who and What will define the Future of Nursing?

Who decides how the Art and Culture of this Vocation evolves to meet the health and social needs of the present, into the future?

Who decides, if not Nurses themselves, responding to need?

Intrinsic to the questions written here, live the corresponding questions of those who are in need of Nursing care, of being Nursed. The present and future needs of the patient belong to some of the most urgent, contemporary Cultural and Societal questions of our time and live alongside, accompanying and accompanied by, those of the Nurse.

The CPD Workshop “ Freedom to Nurse” due to take place at Emerson College in November invites Nurses and those concerned with Nursing to engage in a Collaborative Process to address these questions and others in order that the Initiative to Nurse may Breathe more freely in the present and into the future. In the hope that the Freedom to Nurse and to be Nursed, will not be lost, but instead re-enlivened.

Click here for more information and to register for the workshop.