proflindakristjanson opacsymposium work lifebalance

8/11/2019 ProfLindaKristjanson OPACSymposium Work LifeBalance

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Work-Life Balance - Creating &Sustaining Connections in a ComplexWorld

Professor Linda J Kristjanson

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research &Development


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What work-life balance is not:

It is not about being perfect It is not about being right It is not about being clever or having all

the answers

It is not about being a superwoman orsuperman


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Work-Life Balance

About staying connectedto my self, to

my values, to the relationships I create

along the wayand to work and actions

that are meaningful.


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Balance

About living authentically Doing work that feels intrinsically rewarding

What matters is that the person undertakeshis/her work with integrity

Balance also requires us to pay attention to ourconnections to family, to friends, to our self

Remembering to breath


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Balance

When I take time to take care of my ownhealth, my needs for rest, exercise, giving

my body good foodmaking time for thepeople I love

Remembering that the work I do is

importantbut it is not my whole life I keep my balance and my connections to

others replenish and sustain me.


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My Background and Work

Canada

Influence of parents

Politics and social

contribution

Education andinternational work


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Growing up in this family taught me:

it was pure luck that I grew up in the family Idid with the privileges of education andopportunity

we don't get to choose our parents, no one religion or culture or nation has the

corner on truth,

underneath our skin, we are more similar thandifferent and that we are all part of an interconnected web of

co-existence.


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Nursing

Family influenceNurses who led the way

Values matchWitches, Midwives and Nurses Outlines struggles women have faced in

attempting to comfort, health and seekeducation to practice as healthprofessionals


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Women as Healers

1400s - source of healing was religious men messengers of God (priests)

women who were healers were thereforewitches

ergo - burn them

Science education and universitymaledomain

Nurses were poorly educated,underprivileged backgrounds


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Nursing Development

Florence Nightingale helped to elevate Nursing

"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any otherdefinition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted

and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for aporter. It might even do so for a horse. It will not do fora nurse (1859).

Notes on Nursingprovided an understanding of

hygiene, environmental health factors, healing, nutrition,and psychological well-being

1850 - noted for her contributions to nursing researchthrough her diligent collection of data and statistical

analysis


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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 healthproblems, and employ more technically complexprocedures than ever before

Manage finite health care resources

Nurse in hospitals, community clinics, people'shomes, on oil rigs, in factories, in refugeecamps, in prisons and in war zones

Need to be well educated, well remunerated andrecognised for the valuable work they do


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Nurses leading the way

International Society of Nurses in CancerCarepalliative care service run by Jewishand Arab nurses in Israel

Nurses in Brazil developed a serve to helpwomen with breast cancer and theirfamiliesAcolhimento


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Palliative Care


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DVC Role

fortunate to work with talented, passionatepeople who are undertaking research thatmatters and educating the next generation ofresearchers and science will contribute solutionsto world problems.

Professor Peter Newman, Svetha Venkatesh,

Robert Amin, Moyez Jiwa, Vishnu Pareek, TonyOwen, Anna Heitz, and Dani Stehlik areexamples.


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Do I manage to achieve a worklife balance?

Constant conversation with myself

Over function at home

Over function at work


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Lessons Learned (and relearned)

Put your health first - Taking care of you isespecially important when life gets hectic

Let go of perfectionit is the enemy of good,will wear you out and make you inpatient withothers

Let go of your arrogance that you can do it alland ask for help

Look for the joke

Pay attention to the people in your lives


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