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   Last modified: Aug. 25, 2005

CNO participates in international conferences

Anne Coghlan, the executive director of the College, and Sandra Ireland, then Council president, recently travelled to Taipei, Taiwan, to attend two nursing conferences.

The 7th Annual International Regulatory Conference on Nursing and Midwifery involved more than 400 participants from 75 countries.

“It was a great forum for networking and reconnecting with nurse regulators who attended the International Business meeting hosted by the College in 2004,” says Coghlan.

The conference theme was regulation and globalization, and the welcome message addressed the increasing influence of globalization on professional regulatory issues.

“The conference,” says Coghlan, “provided an opportunity, within the global context, for dialogue and the sharing of experiences to benefit the ongoing development of common approaches to regulating nursing and midwifery.”

Coghlan participated in a panel discussion about mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) with colleagues from Africa, New Zealand and Thailand. “I spoke about our Canadian experiences with MRAs for RN s and RPN s,” says Coghlan. “Listening to the experiences of developing MRAs in other parts of the world reinforced that, though we are at different stages in the development of nursing regulations, there are a lot of similarities globally.”

Coghlan and Ireland also attended the 23rd Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses. The theme was titled Nursing on the Move: Knowledge, Innovation and Vitality, and there was a wide variety of panels and presentations.

“One panel featured speakers recounting how three different areas, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Canada, experienced SARS,” says Coghlan. “Another presentation was about the Tuning Educational Structures in Europe Project, which involves 14 university schools of nursing that are collaborating to create common competencies and learning outcomes. This project could have interesting implications for regulators as we continue to develop processes to facilitate the assessment of internationally educated nurses.”

 

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