Student Nurses' Voices Speaker Series

Participants at a minimum of 50% of sessions will receive a certificate of attendance from CIFAL York

BACKGROUND

The world’s nurses have been enduring ceaseless challenges from overwhelmed health care systems—resulting in anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress, and escalating burnout, as well as increased threats, hostility, and violence. These have been further exacerbated by the most recent COVID-19 pandemic that strained the front-line nurses worldwide.  Even as nurses have been appreciated and widely trusted for this service, the prevalent absence of nursing’s public voice contributes to the fact that nurses continue to be undervalued. Of course, Student Nurses—the future of nursing worldwide—are keenly aware of these challenges. With their Voices, Student Nurses can bring contemporary perspectives from the inherent global and digital awareness characteristic of their generation.

This ‘Student Nurses’ Voices Speaker Series’ will continue our innovative global multi-media outreach to prepare and engage nurses.  This Series aims to focus on the future of nursing by engaging our student nurses to become empowered leading public storytellers and to share their stories of healing advocacy, resilience, and collaborating for a healthy world—as thought-leaders across the global public space and to the listening ears of everyone!

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

The key goals and objectives of the speaker series are to:

• To provide a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences related to nursing and nursing’s public image and voice—across all six WHO Regions and representing many nursing clinical areas of practice, including public health.
• To create a leading community of influencers, practitioners, researchers, and educators who are interested in nursing and improving nursing’s public image and voice.
• To increase awareness of and commitment to the Nightingale Declaration to Achieve a Healthy World (available in 13 language versions) as our strategy for establishing NIGH’s global community and, thus, to strengthen NIGH’s capacity to bring grassroots-to-global feedback through our UN ECOSOC ‘Special Consultative Status.’
• To provide attendees with practical information and tools that they can use in their own work related to nursing’s public image and voice.
• To promote nurses, nursing, and nursing’s public image—across all six WHO Regions—by highlighting leading success stories and best practices.
• To foster collaboration and networking among attendees, speakers, and stakeholders.
• To stay up-to-date with the latest research, developments and trends in nursing’s public image and voices.
• To provide attendees with an opportunity to access and provide feedback on Virtual Technical applications developed and established at CIFAL York.
• To embed a study of the transcripts from this ‘Speakers’ Series’ to determine relevant themes and to publish related results in a published format to be determined.

TARGET AUDIENCES

• Nursing Education Professionals, Researchers, and Students
• Nursing Clinical Practice Professionals, Researchers, and Students
• Public Health Nursing Professionals, Researchers, and Students
• Professionals, Researchers, and Students in relevant academic fields
• Non-governmental and intergovernmental professionals in related fields
• Political, Religious, and Social Leaders
• National, State, and Provincial Health Ministers
• United Nations Representatives
• Doctors
• Caregivers
• Policy Makers

SESSION 1 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12 8:00AM-10:00AM (EST)

Student Nurses' Voices Grassroots to Global

SESSION 2 TUESDAY DECEMBER 3 2:00PM-4:00PM (EST)

Student Nurses' Voices from the Western Hemisphere

SESSION 3 TUESDAY JANUARY 14 12:00PM-2:00PM (EST)

Student Nurses' Voices from Africa

SESSION 4 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11 7:00PM-9:00PM (EST)

SESSION 5 TUESDAY MARCH 11 8:00AM-10:00AM (EDT)

SESSION 6 DATE APRIL 15 12:00PM-2:00PM (EDT)

SESSION 7 TUESDAY MAY 13 12:00PM-2:00PM (EDT)

SESSION 8 DATE TBD 12:00PM-2:00PM (EDT)

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