Nursing’s future and nursing in the future will depend upon nursing maturing as a distinct health, healing and caring profession that it has always represented across time, but has yet to actualize. Nursing, thus ironically, now is challenged to stand and mature within its own paradigm, while simultaneously having to transcend it and share with others. The future already reveals that all health care practitioners will need to work within a shared framework of caring relationships; mindbodyspirit medicine; embracing healing arts, caring practices, and processes; and the spiritual dimensions of care much more completely. Thus, nursing is at its own cross road of possibilities, among world views, paradigms, centuries and eras; invited and required to build upon its heritage and latest evolution in science and technology; but, to transcend itself for a postmodern future yet to be known. However, nursing’s future holds promises of caring and healing mysteries and models yet to unfold as opportunities for offering compassionate caritas service await at individual, system, societal, national and global levels for self, profession, and the broader world community.
Nursing’s future and nursing in the future will depend upon nursing maturing as a distinct health, healing and caring profession that it has always represented across time, but has yet to actualize. Nursing, thus ironically, now is challenged to stand and mature within its own paradigm, while simultaneously having to transcend it and share with others. The future already reveals that all health care practitioners will need to work within a shared framework of caring relationships; mindbodyspirit medicine; embracing healing arts, caring practices, and processes; and the spiritual dimensions of care much more completely. Thus, nursing is at its own cross road of possibilities, among world views, paradigms, centuries and eras; invited and required to build upon its heritage and latest evolution in science and technology; but, to transcend itself for a postmodern future yet to be known. However, nursing’s future holds promises of caring and healing mysteries and models yet to unfold as opportunities for offering compassionate caritas service await at individual, system, societal, national and global levels for self, profession, and the broader world community.