To commemorate the year 2020 as designated by World Health Organization (WHO) as “year of the nurse and the midwife” in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, International Council of Nurses (ICN) launched a Nightingale challenge to empower every health employer around the world to provide leadership and development training for a group of young nurses and midwives.
A press release from College of Nursing (CON), Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR) stated that, CIHSR organised a two-day seminar-cum-workshop on “nursing governance and leadership in the 21st century” on February 27 and 28 for nurses under 35 years of age.
During the programme, prof. Gitumoni Konwar, PhD, dean-cum-principal, Royal Global University, Guwahati and Jasper Damaris, associate director-nursing, Emmanuel Hospital Association were guest resource persons, while faculty from the College of Nursing, Dr. Christy Simpson, principal and associate professors Lalthanzami and Khumjanbeni Murry, CON as well as the medical superintendent of CIHSR, Dr. Clement Momin conducted various sessions.
Delegates for the seminar were apprised on various topics. Participants were also taken through team building exercises, brainstorming on strategic skills for governance professionals and learned to use reflection for self-development. About 140 individuals attended the seminar while the workshop had 40 participants.
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