Creative thinking needed more than ever in health care
Our health care system is struggling for want of creative and innovative people who will not be bound by what we’ve currently got.
“There are many places where energetic midwives and sports scientists who think outside-the-box are needed,” Maralyn Foureur, Professor of Midwifery, said.
“You find nurses and midwives in all parts of the world trying to alleviate human suffering,” she said.
Professor Foureur and Claudia Virdun, a researcher and lecturer in nursing at UTS, will this year teach the first students who combine UTS's new degree, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII), with a Bachelor of Midwifery or Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science.
“Our health care system is struggling for want of creative and innovative people who will not be bound by what we’ve currently got,” Professor Foureur said.
Ms Virdun agreed that the future for creative and innovative thinkers is very bright and packed with unique career opportunities, even beyond health care.
There are of course plenty of opportunities for those whose passion lies specifically in patient care.
“Like any other service, the health system needs improvement. Students that really know how to encourage collaboration, creativity and energy towards problem solving will become the transformative, change making leaders we need,” Ms Virdun said.
