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Family Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities: What Will the Challenges for Family Nursing Be Over the Next Few Years?

Family Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities: What Will the Challenges for Family Nursing Be Over... 10.1177/1074840705280818 JFN O’Sullivan Burchard / Future Challenges , November 2005, Vol. 11 No. 4 Family Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities: What Will the Challenges for Family Nursing Be Over the Next Few Years? Dorothee J. H. O’Sullivan Burchard, M.Sc., R.N., P.G.C.E. Glasgow Caledonian University Keywords: competing demands; constraints; commodified care; caring ethos The challenges for family nursing can perhaps be grouped into four main areas that are associated with providing health care: competing demands, resource constraints, functional commodified care, and a shared ethos of care. First there are the competing demands in the health care arena that impinge on the practice of family nursing. The demographic shift toward an aging population in many countries in the developed Western nations will continue to put increasing pressure on informal carers. At the same time, societal changes in regard to ways of living, for example, single or “solo” living, in Scotland (Centre for Research on Families and Relationships [CFRF], 2001), are likely to compro- mise the pool of informal carers with a kinship commitment. It will also have an impact on the number of nurses necessary for providing care in the public and voluntary sectors. There is a trend toward frag- mentation and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Family Nursing SAGE

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10.1177/1074840705280818 JFN O’Sullivan Burchard / Future Challenges , November 2005, Vol. 11 No. 4 Family Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities: What Will the Challenges for Family Nursing Be Over the Next Few Years? Dorothee J. H. O’Sullivan Burchard, M.Sc., R.N., P.G.C.E. Glasgow Caledonian University Keywords: competing demands; constraints; commodified care; caring ethos The challenges for family nursing can perhaps be grouped into four main areas that are associated with providing health care: competing demands, resource constraints, functional commodified care, and a shared ethos of care. First there are the competing demands in the health care arena that impinge on the practice of family nursing. The demographic shift toward an aging population in many countries in the developed Western nations will continue to put increasing pressure on informal carers. At the same time, societal changes in regard to ways of living, for example, single or “solo” living, in Scotland (Centre for Research on Families and Relationships [CFRF], 2001), are likely to compro- mise the pool of informal carers with a kinship commitment. It will also have an impact on the number of nurses necessary for providing care in the public and voluntary sectors. There is a trend toward frag- mentation and

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Journal of Family Nursing – SAGE

Published: Nov 1, 2005

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