Jenny Carryer

7.30 pm Tuesday, 18 August, Palmerston North Central Library, George Street, Palmerston North

The global health-care environment is one of converging pressures: accelerating population aging, a rising burden of chronic disease and comorbidities, persistent access to care gaps, and significant workforce shortages.  Nursing has provided evidence for over 40 years now that safer hospital staffing and different use of the workforce would provide significant increases in quality and cost efficiency. It seems however that decision makers are blinded by medical hegemony, and we see persistent failure to read the evidence and change some processes. In this session, I will share some of that evidence and use the development of the Nurse Practitioner role as a case study in the persistence of that hegemony.

Jenny Carryer is Professor of Nursing at Massey University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland. Jenny has clinical postgraduate qualifications in oncology and cardiovascular nursing and in counseling. She has conducted extensive research and published in the areas of primary health services, safe staffing, development of the Nurse Practitioner role, and long-term condition management. Jenny was the Executive Director of the College of Nurses for 30 years. She is a member of numerous advisory groups to Ministers of Health and the Ministry of Health.