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Botswana Nurses Day (BND) celebrations and awards giving.Thursday 24th May 2012 in Masunga.

Theme: Closing the gap: from evidence to action.

Botswana Nurses’ Day Will be held on the 24th May 2012, at the Masunga Sports Complex, from 08:00hrs. Please view the pdf link to see the programme for the day.

Please follow this link to download the Media House invite letter for the event. Media invite here.

Visit our Facebook Page to view the photographs after the event.

ICN Congress 2013:
Website and Call for Abstracts Launched

The 25th Quadrennial Congress will be held in one of the world‘s `most liveable` cities,- Melbourne, Australia, 18-23 May 2013

The abstract submission guidelines are now available on the Congress website: www.icn2013.ch. The online abstract submission system will be live as of 16 April 2012.

The Council of National Representatives, ICN’s global governing body, will also convene in Melbourne just prior to the Congress, from 16-19 May 2013. Congress participants who are members of ICN member associations will be able to observe global nursing leaders identify the profession’s priorities and future directions.

To keep up with all the latest information on the Congress programme and related events, visit the Congress website at www.icn2013.ch

Conference 2012

Our health: our common wealth
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March 2012 London UK

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
www.commonwealthnurses.org

Closing the gap: from evidence to action.

Access the Toolkit for International Nurses Day 2012 on www.icn.ch

INAUGURAL SANNAM BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

16-18 NOVEMBER, 2011, GABORONE BOTSWANA

THEME:

Engaging Communities for Accelerating the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the SADC Region.

The first SANNAM conference was a great success. Over 160 people attended from the SADC region and beyond. Apart from 46 concurrent sessions and several poster presentations, the conference offered three plenary sessions, a symposium, a debate, four workshops and a panel discussion.

Realizing that many of the countries in the region are struggling to achieve the MDG’s, and to enable health workers to contribute to the realization of the attainment of the MDG’s, nurses from the 15 SADC countries made several recommendations. Some of these include:

Establish MDG committees in every National Nurses Organization (NNO) to develop strategies to address challenges posed by the MDG’s.

Increase nursing education in terms of numbers and quality to address the appalling shortage of nursing personnel in the region and hence decrease the high patient nurse ratio.

Improve working conditions of nurses by deploying nurses according to their specialties and improving the remuneration of health workers.

Address the profound shortage of clinical equipment and medical supplies in all health facilities.

Provide safe water and sanitation and improve access to health services.

Advocate for responsive services that are relevant for the needs of the communities served.

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education.
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality.
Goal 5: Improve maternal health.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability.
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

During this holiday period, support the education of the daughters of nurses in developing countries.

The FNIF Florence Nightingale Teddy Bear

The FNIF Florence Nightingale Teddy Bear, launched in support of the ICN's Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF), which provides for the schooling of the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries, is now available. You can add your support by purchasing a GCEF Bear on www.gcefbear.com or visit www.icn.ch

NAB AGM 2011: RAMOTSWA 2-3 NOV

NAB members elect new executive committee.

President: Mr. Lebogang Phillip
Vice president: Mr. Glan Tshenyego
Treasurer: Ms. Magnificent Tshidi Modisane
Secretary: Ms. Ruth Mokgethi
Vice Secretary: Mr. Lebalang Smuts

The official hand-over ceremony and meeting will take place on Wednesday the 7th of December at the NAB headquarters.

NAB Members join Journey of Hope Botswana

Masego Chanongwa from NAB joined "The Big Ride" as a volunteer rider, and Maitseo Mafokate an NAB member, joined as a volunteer nurse, taking breast cancer awareness along a 1000km route, from Gaborone to Maun.

NONA article

"Threats and intimidation of nurse leaders in the SADC region” follow the following link:

"Threats-and-intimidations” discussed during network meeting in South Africa

CNF Conference 2011

The Commonwealth Nurses Federation 20th Biennial Conference took place in Malta from the 29th to the 30th of April 2011.

The theme was Nurses and Midwives: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century.

Please access www.commonwealthnurses.org for presentations or read the report.

ICN Conference 2011

Plenary and main session presentations from the ICN Malta Conference have been posted online. Visit www.icn.ch or read the CNR and Conference reports.

‘PROUD TO BE A NURSE’ IMAGE CAMPAIGN’

Gaborone, 29 September 2010: The Nurses Association of Botswana (NAB) celebrated the 2010 International Year of the Nurse by launching the ‘Proud to be a Nurse’ Image Campaign, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The aim of the campaign is to improve the image, reputation and motivation of nurses and midwives providing health services in Botswana. The campaign intends to achieve the following:

Develop and disseminate information about how to create a positive image of nursing.

Motivate nurses to take pride in service provision.

Encourage respect for the nursing profession from the public and the nurses themselves.

Nurse Ambassadors supported by the Ministry of Health visited nurses and met with the public to promote and implement the campaign.

The campaign was officially launched at the Annual General Meeting of the Nurses Association of Botswana on the 13th of October in Serowe by the Chief Nursing Officer in the Ministry of Health.