Nursing in The 21st Century: Perfect Practice, Imperfect Practitioners

摘要

Nursing practitioners, teachers, and academics from around the world gathered on September 2012 for the 16th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. It was a hospitable, comfortable, and above all friendly event that welcomed novice presenters as much as esteemed keynote speakers. The focus of the conference was Nursing in the 21st Century. This was my first adventure in the lovely city of Leeds, and as someone unused to the ways of philosophy, I found the programme highly engaging and relevant to the practice of nursing and the experience of patients and carers. From planned interventions by cyborgs to gut responses to human suffering, from local conundrums to global possibilities, the broadest discussion of the human experience of nursing care was aired in keynote presentations and concurrent session discussions as well as in the corridors (and in the bar, of course).