Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England – 2010

Earlier in March The Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England published its final report.

You can download the report in full.

Box 3.1.2 (on page 43) features key statistics on nursing and midwifery:

• In 2009 there were nearly 595,000 RNs on the register residing in England, 77% of them registered in the adult nursing branch.
• In 2009 there were over 31,000 RMs on the register residing in England.
• Nine out of 10 of RNs in England are female.
• There are disproportionate numbers of men in more senior nursing positions and certain specialties: a third of mental health nurses, for example, are male.
• Nearly all RMs in England are female. There are 131 male midwives.
• Well over half the RNs and RMs working in the NHS in England (57%) are aged between 35 and 54, with less than 3% under 25. Almost 70% of RNs and RMs on the NMC register in England are aged 40 and over.

Reporting on the Commission's report the RCN Bulletin (10 March) notes the need to encourage more men into the profession and people from black and ethnic minority groups. As the list above highlights, however - There are disproportionate numbers of men in more senior nursing positions and certain specialties: a third of mental health nurses, for example, are male.

From my early nurse education days (especially from mental health to general nursing) you had no choice, but be aware of gender and just w(h)ere you had landed. Upon my first encounter with Hodges' model, the model stood out in the list of theories and models of nursing.

It was not listed on the original nursing theory website.
(Hence, the initial website project)
The majority of models and theories were created by women and outside England.#

The future of nursing depends on successfully addressing* the numbers: totals, proportions, recruits, retirees*. ... We can use the numbers, quality, safety and I have to say - Hodges' model to help craft the creative and innovative messages needed. We really are in for a fascinating and exciting 20-30 years in nursing; here in the UK, EU and Internationally. There is much more in the Commission's report to reflect upon which will follow here. ...

http://cnm.independent.gov.uk/

* Note the use of 'addressing' not balancing - that's why this is also challenging.
# This is not a complaint, just an observation.

Additional link:

Sciences care domain: Nursing theory and models of care resources

Health & holistic care in the 21st and 22nd Century

With the technical means at our disposal it is relatively easy to provide information to the masses. Facebook, Google and advertisers are increasingly better versed to target information not just our way, but your way.

Health education and preventive medicine programs depend on the dissemination of health and well-being information, that in turn also relies on access to an expanding digital infrastructure. Equality of access to information communications technologies is now the province of human rights and not just manifestos whether ambitious or binned.

There is much talk of trying to categorise the stage (and hence maturity) of our civilization: hence we talk about being in the information age.

In health care terms this is clearly the case. The provision of information is a key operation and goal of the UN and WHO as per the Millennium Development Goals. Amid the MDG and multiple other related initiatives we need to take care that the habits of many thousands of years do not dilute our efforts.

There is a danger that just as we have broadcast seeds to grow crops,
we will repeat the exercise with technology's reach and
so many seeds will fall on stony ground and
so not take root and
grow.

As people working in the development field know only too well, initiatives like Health Information for All by 2015 and national efforts are not just about the provision of information. In some respects that is not as big a problem as it once was (though is still presents a huge challenge) with community, urban and developmental informatics. Mobile phones and various technologies can get information to people. Increasingly though the problem is one of sufficient or extended literacy. This extends the conventional educational literacy and notion of the 3R's - Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.

What knowledge do I need about my health and that of the 'other' gender and ethnic groups with whom I share this 'home'. What knowledge do I need in order to live long and then be able to prosper and do so sustainably?

Allied with the problem of literacy is seeking the attention of individuals. This perhaps is why infant, primary and secondary schooling are so important - learning to attend is the most important lesson of all. Especially as health and well-being messages must compete in the multi-spectral communications channels polluted with so much dross.

The MDG make clear the above requirement in Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education:

2.1. Net enrollment and retention in primary education
2.2. Proportion of pupils starting Grade 1 who also reach the last grade of primary education
2.3. Literacy rate of 15-24 year old #

With the requisite baseline - personalised literacies and the information that HIFA2015 and others can provide then individuals can achieve a level of health and well-being knowledge commensurate with living (and dying well) in the 21st century:

and 2nd-by-2nd the

growing proportion of the global population that will know the
22nd century. ...

# Thanks to Remi Akinmade and HIFA-2015 list
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Host.aspx?Content=Indicators/OfficialList.htm

Literacy on W2tQ
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search/label/literacy

Career and Professionalism Zone at the Health Informatics Congress 2010 (HC2010)

FROM: Sinclair, Mike (South East Coast Strategic Health Authority)

Dear all,

During the very interesting and stimulating meeting on ICT & Society run by the Faculty of Health Informatics in mid December I advertised a Careers and Professionalism Zone that we are intending to hold at this year's Health Informatics Congress (HC2010).

The aim of this zone is to increase awareness of health informatics as a career prospect for budding new students looking for career options in ICT; and to provide careers advice and guidance to those already engaged in the profession.

We are aiming to provide tables for professional organisations, and for educational establishments, as well as some one-to-one meeting facilities for individual career guidance. There will be limited space available for stands, and they will not be elaborate (to cut down on cost) as we are holding this outside the main exhibition area.

We already have further and higher education bodies coming from Sussex (who are jointly organizing the zone) and from around the Birmingham area, but would like to extend an opportunity for other educational bodies to attend (as long as it is against the purpose outlined above.)

The event is at the ICC in Birmingham and will run from Tuesday April 27th to Thursday 29th.

I attach copy of (links provided here) programme and current exhibitors booked for information.

Costs for a stand/table would be between £200 and £400 (to be firmed up at the end of this month).

If you might be interested please let me know in the first instance.
Places will be offered on a first come first served basis.

Best regards,

Mike Sinclair, Chairman
Healthcare Informatics Congress 2010 (HC2010)
BCS Health
British Computer Society
mike.sinclair at bcs.org.uk
http://www.hcshowcase.org/

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GENERATION 89

The project "Generation 89" proposes to commemorate the fall of the communist systems in the European countries, through the lens of the young people born in 1989. The young people from Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Belgium, UK, Germany, Hungary, Austria and Bulgaria and have had different historical context in which they lived their lives, and one of the objectives of this project is to bring together these youngsters and to offer a space where they can share experiences and expectations for the future. In order to attain this objective, 4 international meetings will be organised in Prague, Bucharest, Warsaw, and Brussels, where for two days the participants will have a various programme focused on two themes: national past and European future.

The programme will comprise movie screenings and debates on the events from 1989, as their parents' generation lived and storied them, informational session regarding the EU policies in the matter of youth and young professionals, workshops focused in drafting a Declaration upon how they perceive their future in EU, a documentary visit to a local organisation with activity in the field of communist systems studies, sightseeing and international night. A second meeting in Brussels of a delegation of the young representatives will be organised with the EU representatives, in order to present the Declaration "Generation 89" and the young people opinion on the future of Europe and their future as citizens of EU. With the support of the "Citizenship" Programme of the European Union.

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"EU: 50 years of rights and opportunities" a sort of "Encyclopaedia of European programmes"

Happy New Year to one and all....

How time flies! 2007 was a 50th anniversary for the EU, here are details about a valuable free resource about EU programmes....

If printed it would be like a book of 5,000 pages...

It is the multimedia Guide "50 years of rights and opportunities" a sort of "Encyclopaedia of European programmes" published by a network of social organization, as part of a project run in the frame of the Europe for citizens programme of the European Union.

The guide, available online at www.together50years.eu and also on a Cd-rom distributed for free, contains information on initiative and programmes in the fields of citizenship, culture, training, participation and job opportunities promoted by European institutions (not only the European Union but also the Council of Europe).

In the guide there's also a list of about 150 international institutions and offices offering training, internship and job opportunities to young people, graduated or not.

A NON-EXHAUSTIVE list of the programmes, initiatives and services included in the Guide, contains:

- Youth in Action
- Longlife learning (Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates, Comenius, etc)
- Culture 2007
- Tempus III
- Media
- Progress
- Executive Training Programme
- European Social Fund
- Junior Professional Officer
- UE-Canada Co-operation
- UE-USA Co-operation
- UE-Australia Co-operation
- Ue-Japan Co-operation
- Erasmus Mundus
- Aschberg-Unesco Bursaries
- Atlantis
- Eures
- Cedefop
- Epso
- Eqf
- Europass
- Eurodesk
- SALTO

...and many more...

On the website you'll also find how to acquire the Cd-Rom.

For further information do not hesitate to contact us at info@together50years.eu

My source: received from together50years.eu