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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• It is not about being clever or having
all the answers• It is not about being a superwoman
or superman
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.
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
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.
My Background and Work
• Canada
• Influence of parents
• Politics and social contribution
• Education and international work
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.
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
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
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
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
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’
Palliative Care
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.
Do I manage to achieve a work life balance?
• Constant conversation with myself
• Over function at home
• Over function at work
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