| Friday, July 11, 2008: 10:00 AM-11:15 AM | |||
| The Global Nurse Program: Innovation for Strengthening the Global Nurse Workforce | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Describe the rationale for nursing collaboration across the globe. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Discuss a collaborative framework to strengthen global nurse workforce. | |||
| The lack of adequate human resources to provide safe, quality healthcare services is a crisis that demands urgent attention. Nursing the single largest provider of healthcare services, has a role in finding solutions for expanding and strengthening the global nursing workforce. Inadequate human resources has been further challenged by factors such as globalization, migration of health care professionals, increased cultural diversity within and across cultures, new and returning diseases, political alignments, legal ramifications, and economic and personal interests. A clear acknowledgement of the potential and real impact of human resource inadequacy and how it affects both the developing and developed world, with an understanding of the factors that affect human resource capacity can help to begin the process for designing sustainable solutions. Solutions for adequate human resources for health care delivery will be multilayered. It must emerge from many partnerships and collaborative relationships. Paramount to its success is innovation in the development of programs that will serve to expand and strengthen the current nursing workforce. | |||
| Symposium Organizer: | Rita K. Adeniran, RN, MSN, CMAC, CNAA, BC | ||
| Symposium Presenters: | Victoria Rich, PhD, RN, FAAN Rita K. Adeniran, RN, MSN, CMAC, CNAA, BC Sandy Jost, MSN, RN | ||
| Leadership Strategies for Enhancing Global Nurse Workforce Victoria Rich, PhD, RN, FAAN | |||
| Connecting Nurses to Make A Difference in Global Healthcare Sandy Jost, MSN, RN | |||
| Globalization is Here to Stay: International Collaboration is key to Improving Global Health Rita K. Adeniran, RN, MSN, CMAC, CNAA, BC | |||