39th Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research and Education Conference

The 39th Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research and Education Conference will take place in RCSI on Thursday, 27 February 2020.

The theme for the conference is ‘2020: The WHO Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Celebrating Nurses and Midwives Contribution to Healthcare Locally and Globally’.

In recognition of the contribution of nurses and midwives to healthcare and in celebration of 2020, as the WHO Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the Faculty is delighted to announce that the Conference on Thursday will be a free event.

The Faculty wishes to showcase and celebrate nursing and midwifery’s contribution to healthcare. This is an opportunity to share and celebrate local initiatives, quality improvement projects, frameworks, research, concepts, audits, documentation or ideas which have made a difference to your patients/clients/service users or the delivery of healthcare in your area.

An extended panel discussion with global leaders will discuss, recognise and celebrate the influence of nursing and midwifery practice across the globe.

Speakers

Lord Nigel Crisp, Co-Chair of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health; Co-Chair of the Nursing Now campaign; and former NHS Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health 2000-2006

Gabrielle Jacob, Programme Manager/Unit Head, Human Resources for Health Programme, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Elizabeth Iro, Chief Nursing Officer, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. Richard Ricciardi, President-Elect, Sigma Theta Tau International and Professor, George Washington University, School of Nursing, Washington, D.C., USA

Prof. Rita Borg Xuereb, International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), The Hague, The Netherlands