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Global Nursing Committee

Welcome

On behalf of the Global Nursing Committee, welcome!
I am so excited to invite you to explore the new Global Nursing pages of our College of Nursing website. The College was the first in the University to have a standing committee devoted to global issues. The committee started as the Global Nursing Taskforce in October of 2005 and worked diligently for four years to sponsor events to raise global awareness and to collaborate with other areas of the University and with those in the greater Seattle area to provide opportunities to dialogue about global health issues. In recognition of our students’ overwhelming excitement and requests for global experiences, as well as in keeping with the growing, campus-wide work of internationalization, a proposal with set before the College of Nursing Faculty Assembly to transform the Taskforce into a standing Committee. In March of 2009 the proposal was approved by that body and the Global Nursing Committee continues its hard work on behalf of our students and faculty to this day!
Jennifer Fricas, Chair

Purpose

The purpose of the Global Nursing Committee will be to provide vision, direction, and advice to the College of Nursing community (including relevant curriculum committees, Deans, and the Center for Vulnerable Populations) regarding the Committee’s functions.

Click to view the full charter, which explains the role of this committee.

Members

Karen Cowgill
Therry Eparwa
Jennifer Fricas, Chair 
Lindsay Leeder 
Deirdre Longenecker
Rachelle Meenach Ligrano
GG Salvatierra

Events

The Global Nursing Committee is proud to partner with other College and University groups to sponsor a number of events each year which bring together members of the College of Nursing who are interested in global health with the larger SU and Seattle communities. Our goal for these events is to bring attention to important global health subjects, share information and opportunities about work being done globally, and create an environment for discussion and learning about global health issues. 

Planned events for 2012-2013 include:

Youngran Young presents her research with HIV among married Cambodian women
October 16, 2012 12:30-1:30 p.m. in PIGT 105

Zambia Speaker Panel including representatives from Professionals without Borders and the College of Nursing
November 14, 2012 12:30-1:30 p.m. in STCN 130 

Bonnie Bowie and Danuta Wojnar present their research with Somali Families
January 23, 2013, 12:30-1:30 p.m. room TBA

Some of our past events have included:

• Dr. Peter Chedraui, MD – faculty at Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador) and obstetrician-gynecologist at Hospital Sotomayor in Guayaquil
• Dr. Karen Feldt – discussed her experiences pursuing a scholarly partnership with National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Global Health Speaker Series: SU Students Abroad - SU students, Hannah Rolston, Allison Cauvel, Christine Luong, and Alexandra Valente discussed their education abroad experiences in Africa, Belize, and Nicaragua
• Dr. Vinod Diwan, Professor in Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Global Health/IHCAR at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, presented “Karolinska Institutet as a Global University: Our Rights and Responsibility”
• Dr. Josephine Etowa, presented on Cultural Competency in Nursing
• SU Nursing Students, discussed their experiences abroad in a presentation entitled “Making Meaning from Service-Learning in Belize”