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THE DATES ARE SET! MARK YOUR CALENDARS for The Council of International Neonatal Nurses: 8th International Neonatal Nurses Conference. The conference will be held in Belfast, Ireland from September 5th – 8th, 2013. Information can be found at: http://www.coinn2013.com/ and at www.coinnurses.org.
We'd like to welcome to COINN's growing list of countries that we represent - HAITI - and it's representative - Marie Etienne.
Congratulations go out to our very own Dr. Carole Kenner who has been awarded the STTI 2011 Audrey Hepburn Award. This award
honors nurses and health care professionals for their contributions to professional excellence. Dr. Kenner was presented her award at the 41st Biennial Convention hosted by STTI in Grapevine, Texas, USA.
Go to the photo album pages to see photos from this great day! Photo Albums
Healthy Newborn Network
Nurse Rekha Samant from Mumbai, India is a recipient of the first-ever International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award. Watch her story.
COINN Rep discusses neonatal nursing in Japan
Wakako Eklund; one of our Regional Representatives recently went to Japan to discuss neonatal nursing; it´s challenges and how NP´s are able to expand from the bedside.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20101201-00000008-cbn-soci
http://k-ijishinpo.jp/article/2010/201012/000087.html
Our STORE has many items that would be great gifts for the Holidays!
We have HANDMADE items made by women in Kenya and brought to us through the Miriam Mubichi Foundation.
We also have COINN Membership Pins - more to come so continue to watch the store page.
All these items are affordable and ready to ship in time for the Holidays!! Visit COINN store
Healthy Newborn Network |website
(HNN) is now linked with COINN - go to their website to read what our Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award Winner has to say to the Minister of Health.
Vision for Maternity Care System
Washington DC - Childbirth Connection today released two landmark reports that create a framework for revamping maternity care in the US and advancing health care reform: "2020 Vision for a High Quality, High Value Maternity Care System" and "Blueprint for Action."
The reports were developed through an extensive multi-year collaboration with more than 100 maternity care leaders representing industry stakeholders - from hospitals and health plans to consumers and providers. These reports and related papers have just been published in a special supplement of Women's Health Issues.
The "2020 Vision" and "Blueprint for Action" reports are freely available on the Women's Health Issues website at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5192-2010-999799998.8998-1591119
To learn more about the Transforming Maternity Care project, please visit: http://www.childbirthconnection.org/tmc/.
Nepal PICU/NICU Project
A message from Michele Avila, RN, CCRN, CCNS, CPNP-AC Program Coordinator, PICU/NICU Project.
Click here to view the message.
A fund raising project in the works!
We are putting together a picture book - like a coffee table book - for COINN fund raising. We are seeking pictures of mothers, babies, nurses, nicu's etc for publication. These photos will need to be good quality with permission to reproduce them signed and returned to us with EACH photo. If you have any photos that you would like to submit, please contact Janice Zasada at J.Zasada@coinnurses.org for a copyright release form. Once you have the form, please fill it out and submit it with your photos to Janice at the email address listed above.
We will inform all those whose photos are accepted and will appear in the book as soon as the decisions have been made.
Call for Authors
We are seeking authors for our website newsletter. If you are a Regional Representative of COINN and would like to write one of our upcoming newsletters please contact Jan Zasada for more information.
Essential newborn care program
Dr. Ellyn Cavanagh; one of COINN's regional representatives from Afghanistan, is currently teaching the countries first national essential newborn care program. Dr. Cavanagh is teaching the program along with Dr. Anwai, Chief Neonatologist from India.
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The Essential Nursing Competencies and Curricula Guidelines for Genetics and Genomics
The COINN Board of Directors have endorsed The Essential Nursing Competencies and Curricula Guidelines for Genetics and Genomics.
These can now be accessed online at: http://www.genome.gov/17517037.
Research Collaborators Wanted
We are interested in collaborating with researchers interested in collecting and analyzing data related to the push-pull factors associated with immigration and transnational migration of health care workers.
This comparative project is designed to explore, evaluate, and contrast the economic, social, political, and professional factors associated with the immigration of health care workers from developing countries to the US, Europe, and Canada. This project is in the development stage and has some seed research support to jump-start it.
Anyone interested in collaborating on this project should send their contact information to: Janice Zasada, Office Manager at: J.Zasada@coinnurses.org.
Regional representatives needed
COINN is looking for both neonatal and pediatric regional representation in areas where we currently have none. You can go to our Regional Networks page to see our current contacts.
Please contact Janice Zasada at J.Zasada@coinnurses.org if you or any of your colleagues know of anyone that would be interested in joining the growing world that is COINN.