Role of the Professional Organisations in Human Resource Development

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Role of the Professional Organisations in Human
Resource Development

Judith A. Oulton Chief Executive
Officer International Council of Nurses 22-23
March 2007
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International Council of Nurses

• Founded in 1899
• Worlds first and widest reaching forum for
  health professionals
• Federation of 129 national nurses associations
• Speaks for more than 13 million nurses
• Founding member of World Health Professions
  Alliance (WHPA)

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Varying roles of professional organisations

• Standard setting
• Advocacy
• Workplace/workforce issues
• Regulatory
• Leadership
• Ethics
• Education

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ICN action in HHR development

• Wellness Centre programme
• Leadership development
• International Centre for Human Resources in
  Nursing
• International Centre for Nurse Migration

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What is a wellness programme

• Delivers comprehensive health
• services to health workers their families
• Prevention education
• Testing, counseling treatment for HIV and TB
• Stress management
• Training centre
• Occupational health and safety
• Prevention and management of chronic disease

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Building Leadership

• Leadership for Change leadership competencies
  for a constantly changing environment.
• Leadership in Negotiation -
• builds negotiating and management skills for
  nurses and associations.

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International Centre for Human Resources in
Nursing

• Goals
• To help build capacity in nursing human resources
  planning and management
• To act as a resource for generating, collating,
  promoting and disseminating nursing HR data,
  policy and practices
• To function as a catalyst for change and an
  international collaboration focal point
• www.ichrn.org

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International Centre on Nurse Migration

• Global resource for the development, promotion
  and dissemination of research, policy and
  information on nurse migration
• Best practices in integration of the migrant
  nurse into the workplace
• Self sufficiency
• Return migration
• www.intlnursemigration.org

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• There is no one action that will
• resolve the current crisis.
• Effective solutions take the committed,
  collaborative, long-term resolve of many.
• Health professional organisations must be
  directly involved.
• A system in which only the funder calls the tune
  is a formula for failure.