Phi Gamma creates a diverse network of nursing professionals who are leaders in their fields that share the same interests across various disciplines. It aims to transcend the values of nursing and leadership excellence in the global arena through effective transfer of knowledge across practices. Established from the western side of the globe, Phi Gamma is now present in more than 30 countries with over 200 active members who are leaders in their respective fields. Truly, Phi Gamma dismantled the barriers of diversity and deciphered universal dialogue of improving health and wellness utilizing the cyberspace.
Phi Gamma advocates global connection through effective collaboration of nursing leaders and with various nursing groups across the globe. With its worldwide presence, evidence-based practices captured locally are being reverberated to a broader scale. Phi Gamma does not only recruit leaders, it cultivates leadership potentials among members through opening opportunities to be engaged in chapter leadership roles and providing avenues to further enhance leadership qualities and traits essential in sustaining its ethos.
Phi Gamma Chapter is engaged in a host of activities. The Chapter holds quarterly Inductions on the 10th of September, December, March and June. Educational webinars, most of which offer continuing education credit, are held regularly. Included among them is an electronic international poster session.
The chapter engages in philanthropic activities. Sigma is working to support the UN global Sustainable Development Goals including Goal #6: to Ensure access to water and sanitation for all. Phi Gamma Chapter is supporting this goal by raising funds through the Phi Gamma [click WAVE Project: Water Access Virtually Ensured as a part of water.org. Phi Gamma takes part in the Sigma Theta Tau International Day of Philanthropy and the honor society’s Chapter Giving Circle. In addition, several members have been named Virginia Henderson, Sigma Theta Tau and/or Billye Brown Fellows in recognition of their contributions to the Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation. Phi Gamma Chapter also engages in global outreach to prospective members. Presentations have been made to nurses in Egypt and the Philippines. The opportunities to become involved in Phi Gamma Chapter and in Sigma Theta Tau International, to grow, collaborate and develop as leaders, and to contribute to the nursing profession are virtually endless. Phi Gamma Chapter members are active at all levels of the society…in the Chapter…regionally…and internationally. They include international committee members and chairs and the past and current International President.
While some chapters may use virtual platforms, Phi Gamma is the nursing society’s ONLY virtual chapter. In part, its success is attributable to collaboration with educational institutions like Our Lady of Fatima University; other organizations including the Philippine Nursing Research Society and to the support of other chapters including Omicron Delta at the University of Phoenix and Lambda Sigma chapter from Indiana State University and those supported by Phi Gamma such as Psi Upsilon Chapter from Western Governors University.
In 2013, during the 42nd Sigma Theta Tau International biennial convention, Phi Gamma Chapter received the Chapter Global Community Building Award. This award recognized Phi Gamma Chapter for having excelled in fostering a global community of nurses using learning, knowledge and professional development to improve the health of the world’s people. In BOTH 2015 and 2017, during the Sigma biennial conventions, Phi Gamma Chapter earned the Chapter Key Award for excelling in chapter-related activities such as:
- Membership recruitment and retention
- Publicity and programming
- Professional and leadership development; and
- Local, national, and international collaboration.
And, in 2017, Phi Gamma Chapter received recognition through the Showcase of Regional Excellence for the Chapter’s efforts to fulfill the 2015 ~ 2017 presidential call to action which asked members to Influence to Advance Global Health and Nursing through advocacy, policy, lifelong learning, and philanthropy.
Phi Gamma Virtual Chapter continues its mission to sustain virtual initiatives towards global development. To achieve this, members are kept involved in relevant conversations crucial in fulfilling its advocacies through virtual campaigns, continuing education, and physical presence in regional and international conferences.