Accepted conference submissions become the basis of the program and learning activities to assist participants in achieving these purposes and Conference Goals:
- Sharing current information, research or best practices, applicable to both US and Russian nursing practice, education and health care delivery
- Increasing professional understanding between Russia and US nurses as to history, culture, education, and healthcare delivery
- Providing participants an opportunity to do a presentation or lead a discussion session
- Achieve the US-Russian Nursing Conference Cruise goals of encouraging
learning about Russian cultures and perspectives on nursing and health care delivery
- Building collegial relationship and friendships between US and Russian nurses
- Fostering intercultural professional understanding
- Creating the basis for post conference exchanges and collaborations
2009 Conference Objectives: Specific Objectives for the 2009 Conference are to:
- Share approaches and projects focused on promoting care outcomes beneficial to patients and their families
- Increase understanding about nursing research findings, research methodologies and evidence-based practice
- Explore nursing roles and practice issues and concerns
- Examine nursing curriculums, teaching/learning strategies and methods in cross-cultural situations
- Design networking approaches to promote the global nursing community
For further information, please contact:
West Coast: Marie Driever at driever.m@ghc.org or mariedriever@comcast.net,206-448-2090
East Coast: Rachel Difazio at Rachel.Difazio@childrens.harvard.edu, (978)927-4452
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