Introduction
The WHO Global Strategic Direction for Nurses and Midwives 2021-2025 (SDNM) aims to equip nurses and midwives with policies and tools to help achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and other population goals in their countries. There are four main policy focus areas to achieve this: education, leadership, service delivery and jobs. Within each focus area is a “strategic direction” articulating a goal to be achieved over a five-year period. The intended impact of the SDNM is that countries fully enable the contributions of nurses and midwives towards the following common goals: primary health care for UHC, health emergencies prevention, preparedness and response, managing communicable diseases; mitigating the health effects of climate change; managing international migration; and ensuring access in rural and remote areas and small island developing states.
The aim of the webinar is to offer insight and examples of the work delivered by key stakeholders that are related to the SDNM.
Objective
The webinar aims to demonstrate examples of how the WHO Global Strategic Direction for Nurses and Midwives have been achieved across the four policy focus areas. Our speakers are globally situated and will offer examples in practice of how UHC can be achieved through:
- understanding how changes in nursing and midwifery curriculum design are required to meet the changing global population need;
- outlining the changes that are required for nurses and midwives to work to the top of their scope of practice.
- Exploring the Primary Health Care setting as the first point of contact for healthcare for all in non-emergency situations;
- offering an update on the Future Leaders Programme of the NMGCoP;
- demonstrating examples of good practice in service delivery, including the Basic Emergency Care Training in Uganda; and
- evaluation of the NMGCoP as a platform for sharing information on the global SDNM.
Outcomes and expectations
It is anticipated that the overviews of the four areas of focus will allow the attendee to understand the transference of policy into practice and demonstrate the opportunities to influence policy direction in your own country towards UHC. Many references and resources will be shared on the webinar, and it will be accessible on the NMGCoP for future reference.
The session will be broadcast in English with simultaneous translation into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
Session overview
The webinar will focus on a review and update of examples in practice that demonstrate the impact of Global Strategic Directions for Nurses and Midwives (SDNM). All speakers will demonstrate, through examples, how the four pillars of: education, leadership, service delivery and jobs, can support achieving the objectives of the SDNM. The WHO Chief Nursing Officer values the health and well-being of all nurses and midwives. The opening session offers to support the health and well-being of nurses and midwives and includes a presentation on self-awareness, looking at the personality of self and others, to achieve maximum impact on outcomes. The session then proceeds through examples of the four pillars of the SDNM. Also included in the session are speakers from the steering committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Global Community of Practice (NMGCoP). These speakers both share the benefit of the platform for sharing the SDNM and outline the framework used to evaluate the platform.