Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
Open Access

Short Communication

The Future of Nursing: Assumption of New Roles and Responsibilities

¹Sanatorio Sagrado Corazón, Public Health, Health Economics and Management Specialisation,Universidad ISALUD, Buenos Aires, Argentina

²Health Economics and Management, Sanatorio Sagrado Corazón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

*Corresponding Author:

Carlos Alberto Díaz
Physician, Medical Manager at Sanatorio Sagrado Corazón
Public Health Specialist, Director of the Health Economics and Management Specialisation
Universidad ISALUD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: +549115750763
E-mail: carlos.diaz@sagrado-corazon.com.ar

Received date: January 25, 2017; Accepted date: February 10, 2017; Published date: February 17, 2017

Citation: Díaz CA, Castilla RA (2017) The Future of Nursing: Assumption of New Roles and Responsibilities. J Comm Pub Health Nurs 3: 158. doi:10.4172/2471-9846.1000158

Copyright: © 2017 Díaz CA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

At present, we are facing a conflictive incoherence between the importance of nursing as a profession, and the social-institutional-political-organisational-economic recognition the nurses actually receive, in spite of the academic improvement. This dilemma seems to be caused by the absence of health as a whole in the political agenda, the health’s system fragmentation, low salaries, lack of collective bargaining, and other sociocultural factors. The future of nursing will be based in management. Professional spaces will need to be amplified; new skills and competencies will need to be developed. Leadership, communication, efficiency, should be key factors. Finally, there will not be any future without professional growth and long-term careers, and an improvement of work conditions and economic remuneration.