Key Partnerships and
International Relationships
The work of LCCIN has been made possible through a
variety of partnerships over time. Among these have
been:
The Carter Presidential Center
Commonwealth Steering Committee for Nusing and Midwifery
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
International Council of Nurses (ICN)
MedShare International
Regional Nursing Body (RNB)
Rollins School of Public Health
World Health Organization (WHO)
Sigma Theta Tau’s International Academic Nursing Alliance (IANA)
Below you will find more information about these partnerships
The Carter Presidential Center
The LCCIN is named in honor of President Jimmy Carter’s mother, Lillian Carter. The Carter Center co-sponsored the first and second GNP conferences. Additionally, the Carter Center calls on the School of Nursing for assistance with other international programs that need special expertise. For example Emory School of Nursing faculty member, Dr. Joyce Murray, directs their Ethiopia project.
Commonwealth Steering Committee for Nusing and Midwifery
Chaired by Professor Anna Maslin, Department of Health, London, the Steering Committee has members drawn from various Commonwealth countries and nursing/midwifery organizations. Although reliant on the goodwill of its members (who serve on the Steering Committee alongside their main jobs) and partners in taking its work forward, the Steering Committee aims to give leadership and practical support to nursing and midwifery around the Commonwealth. The main strands of its regular work program include practical workshops for nurses and midwives from different regions of the Commonwealth, the production and distribution of practical adaptable MDG-focused resource materials, and regular surveys of nursing and midwifery across all Commonwealth countries to identify progress and areas for action.
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, located adjacent to LCCIN, is a collaborative partner on many projects. The CDC has co-sponsored the 2001, 2004, and 2006 GNP conferences and conducted educational workshops for those conferences. Several of the CDC program directors have planned workshops for the GNP conferences.
International Council of Nurses (ICN)
The International Council of Nurses was a partner in the first Global Nursing Partnerships conference. In June, 2003, Dean Salmon led a pre-conference leadership workshop for Chief Nursing Officers at the ICN meeting in Geneva. On January 9, 2004, she met with Dr. Judith Oulton, Chief Executive Officer for the ICN regarding future collaboration.
MedShare International
Is a nonprofit organization based in metro Atlanta. It collects vital medical surplus, then sorts, evaluates, classifies, labels and redistributes it to healthcare institutions and medical teams from Ghana to Guatemala, Bolivia to Kyrgyztan and Latvia. It also supports local organizations such as ZAP Asthma, an Emory University School of Public Health program, the South Georgian Farmworker Health Project, the Good Samaritan Health Center, the Emanuel Foundation and Mercy Mobile Health Care. Since its founding in late 1998, the organization has shipped many millions of dollars worth of unused medical supplies to economically developing countries.
Regional Nursing Body (RNB)
Is a non-statutory, autonomous, collaborative and advisory organization of Chief Nursing Officers, which is administratively attached to the Health Section within the Caribbean Community Secretarial (CARICOM). The RNB is committed to excellence in the provision of health care, utilizing a multi-disciplinary and continuous quality improvement (CQI) process. The RNB ensures that nurse leaders are proactive in promoting the formulation of overall health policy through the development of strategic plans with the necessary enabling legislative framework, thus impacting on decision-making at all levels. Furthermore the RNB strengthens community partnership, promotes evidenced-based practice, maintains regional and international standards of nursing practice, nursing education, quality and gender sensitivity and utilizes current technology. The Regional Nursing Body (RNB) is committed to the improvement of health in the Region through the provision of strategic nursing leadership in health and nursing programs.
Rollins School of Public Health, The Emory University
World
Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization was a co-sponsor for the Global Nursing Partnership Conference in 2001 and a collaborator on nursing and midwifery issues. On January 9, 2004, Dr. Marla Salmon met with Dr. J.W. Lee, the new Director General of WHO to introduce him to the LCCIN and its special role as a non-aligned resource for developing and networking CNOs in ministries of health with respect to capacity building, partnership development on all levels and mobilization of the nursing workforce globally.
Also, engagement with other partners, such as CARE and the Peace Corps, is anticipated. In addition, partnerships with individual countries are being developed to enable long-term workforce development strategies.
LCCIN serves as a Beta site for testing IANA's international nursing collaborative web site. The IANA system is set up to allow the sharing of academic resources and opportunities between schools of nursing, faculty, and students world wide by making a match between those that seek resources and those that possess them. The IANA system will never capture, hold or possess any of the content. Rather, it is set up to “make a match” between users. Once a match has been made, it is up to each person or organization to make the necessary arrangements. Users will contact the university, dean, or faculty member directly to pursue the information, resources or opportunities they desire.
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