Healthcare transformation as
Professional renewal

The care profession needs to reach beyond a purely instrumental logic and recapture the dignity of the caring relationship.

The transformation of healthcare is increasingly being viewed as a challenge to rediscover the essence of the praxis of care. This perspective calls for a shift beyond the instrumental logic that currently dominates much of healthcare, advocating for a renewed focus on the dignity and depth of the caring relationship.

Key concepts
  • Patient-centered care
  • Whole-person care
  • ‘Attentiveness’
  • Recovery-oriented practice
  • Goal-oriented care
  • Craft
  • Agency
  • Ethics of care
Enablers & Barriers
Health literacy
Cultural competence
Worldview

Humanist. Care is an interpersonal process that involves the whole person. Professionals deal with two relationships: a ‘curing’ relationship with a medical issue, and a ‘healing’ relationship with a person.

View of health

Health is a state of relative well- being and life-satisfaction, rooted in an experience of caring connections, sense of purpose and emotional resilience. It moves beyond a strictly clinical approach to embrace the intricate interplay between physical, emotional, and social dimensions of well-being.

Actors & agency
Individual patient
Individual citizen
Community
HC professional
Researcher
Corporations
Governments
Publications

Reflecting on Presence in Nursing: A Guide for Practice and Research
Emmerentia Du Plessis
April 2021, Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This work is created in collaboration with International Futures Forum and financed by a grant of the Johnson & Johnson Foundation.