| Tuesday, November 15, 2005: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
| Global Leadership in Nightingale’s Footsteps | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Review new primary historical research into Florence Nightingale’s scope of service to health in personal, social, and political domains | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Recognize and identify emerging nursing opportunities for leadership and global action through the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health | |||
| While commonly remembered as a Crimean heroine, Florence Nightingale’s lasting contributions were multi-faceted and broad-ranging in scope. As a nurse and nursing educator, Nightingale was also a visionary, healer, philosopher, reformer, activist, environmentalist, feminist, practitioner, scientist, and politician——essentially, an effective global leader in her time. As we approach the Centennial of Florence Nightingale's death year in 2010, there is a renewed interest in this great world leader. As well, a dynamic upsurge of global consciousness is causing people around the world to respond as global citizens, becoming better informed and recently relevantly involved. Disaster and conflict relief and related concern for disease prevention are now worldwide priorities. Millions are wondering how they can make a difference. People want to know "how-to" create effective, sustainable, global communities. With global health issues——including the increasingly-severe global nursing shortage——becoming a priority in human affairs, our times call for creative, innovative global leaders——from throughout the worldwide nursing community——to activate new agendas to bring sustainable health, peace and well-being to humanity. The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) has been created to address these needs. NIGH envisions a healthy world for all peoples and seeks to achieve a healthy world by: * Enabling peoples of the United Nations, as citizens of its Member States, to work together in a worldwide campaign for health as the top global priority; * Enlisting nurses and other health care workers and educators to work together effectively——and to collaborate with others of like-mind, heart and spirit——in mobilizing public opinion to this purpose; * Encouraging individual initiative and cooperative action toward these ends by highlighting the life of Florence Nightingale and the lives other nurses and health care workers——past and present——who have devoted themselves to building a healthy world. | |||
| Organizer: | Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN | ||
| Presenters: | Barbara M. Dossey, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN Louise C. Selanders, EdD, RN | ||