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Work-Life Balance - Creating & Sustaining Connections in a Complex World

Work-Life Balance - Creating & Sustaining Connections in a Complex World. Professor Linda J Kristjanson Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research & Development . What work-life balance is not:. It is not about being perfect It is not about being right

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Work-Life Balance - Creating & Sustaining Connections in a Complex World

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  1. Work-Life Balance - Creating & Sustaining Connections in a Complex World Professor Linda J Kristjanson Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research & Development

  2. 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 or superman

  3. 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 that are meaningful.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. My Background and Work • Canada • Influence of parents • Politics and social contribution • Education and international work

  7. Growing up in this family taught me: • it was pure luck that I grew up in the family I did with the privileges of education and opportunity • 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 than different and • that we are all part of an interconnected web of co-existence.

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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). • Notes on Nursing – provided an understanding of hygiene, environmental health factors, healing, nutrition, and psychological well-being • 1850 - noted for her contributions to nursing research through her diligent collection of data and statistical analysis

  11. 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

  12. Nurses leading the way • International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care – palliative care service run by Jewish and Arab nurses in Israel • Nurses in Brazil developed a serve to help women with breast cancer and their families – ‘Acolhimento’

  13. Palliative Care

  14. 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.

  15. Do I manage to achieve a work life balance? • Constant conversation with myself • Over function at home • Over function at work

  16. Lessons Learned (and relearned) • Put your health first - Taking care of you is especially important when life gets hectic • Let go of perfection – it is the enemy of good, will wear you out and make you inpatient with others • Let go of your arrogance that you can do it all and ask for help • Look for the joke • Pay attention to the people in your lives

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