The document linked below, developed by the International Nursing Education, Services, and Accreditation (INESA) joint taskforce, contains extensive information about faculty roles in international nursing and preparing for travel. http://www.nln.org/facultyprograms/facultyresources/toolkit_facprepglobexp.pdf Section One: Overview of Faculty Roles Section Two: Considerations Prior to Travel Abroad Section Three: Pre-Departure Preparation Section Four: Recommendations upon Arrival in a Host [...]
Nurses Make World Health Care Go Round – article by Sheila Davis in the Huffington Post We are in the midst of celebrating International Nurses Week, which culminates on May 12 with the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Although our founding mother of modern nursing would be impressed with the health technology of today, I am [...]
The GNC will be celebrating Nurses Week on May 8th, 2012. Nursing Colleagues at Partners in Health will be hosting the event. All GNC members are welcome. Venue: Partners in Health, TJW Conference Room, 888 Commonwealth Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, Time: 5-7:00 pm Directions: PIH is located at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue [...]
See below for post regarding SA TB Conference this June. Please pass along to any nurses you think may be interested. Applications are due as soon as possible, by May 7th at the latest. 05 April 2012 Dear Member The Society is offering bursaries to its doctor and nurse members to attend the SA TB Conference [...]
April 27, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Posted on 04/27/12 Sheila Davis, PIH Director of Global Nursing I have worked as a nurse in infectious diseases for almost 25 years. I never thought I would see cholera in my lifetime. Yet, alarmingly, cholera has sickened over 532,000 Haitians and killed over 7,000. As usual, nurses are on the frontline of the battle [...]
April 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Nurses team up to fight cancer & other chronic diseases Posted on 04/20/12 By Sheila Davis, PIH Director of Global Nursing Today, I am giving the keynote to our newest group of global nursing leaders at the University of Maryland Nurses for Global Health’s 5th Annual Conference on the Global Burden of Chronic Disease. What [...]
March 25, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Thank you to Boston University for hosting the GNC website. By Lisa Kennedy Sheldon