Speaker: Margrieta Langins

The purpose of the session is to share WHO European Region progress towards implementation of the Global Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery.

Speaker: Alba Llop-Gironés

Purpose of the presentation

The purpose of the session is to share regional perspectives on nursing and midwifery capacity to deliver care for population needs in the WHO European Region followed by a discussion of the Azerbaijan context. 

Recalling that the Global Strategic Direction for strengthening service Delivery by nurses and midwives  is to enable midwives and nurses to work to the full extent of their education and training in safe and supportive service delivery environments, and that the strategic directions to secure jobs for nurse and midwives is to sustainably create nursing and midwifery jobs, by effectively recruiting and retaining midwives and nurses, and ethically managing international mobility and migration the keynote speaker will share reflections around the following key messages: 

• Countries will benefit from reviewing and strengthening professional regulatory systems and support capacity building of regulators, where needed;
• Countries will benefit from understanding how to adapt workplaces to enable midwives and nurses to maximally contribute to service delivery in interdisciplinary health care teams;
• Countries will benefit from conducting nursing and midwifery workforces planning and forecasting through a health labour market lens; 
• Countries will also benefit from ensuring adequate demand (jobs) with respect to health service delivery for primary health care and other population health priorities;
• The implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel requires reinforcement; and
• focus on attracting, recruiting and retaining midwives and nurses is required where they are most needed.
• For all this, countries need good data to plan effectively considering population health needs and workforce demographics;

Speaker: Ainagul Nauruzbaeva

Purpose of the presentation: 

Recalling that the Global Strategic Direction for strengthening education of nurses and midwives is to ensure midwifery and nursing graduates match or surpass health system demand and have the requisite knowledge, competencies and attitudes to meet national health priorities, the purpose of the presentation is to set the scene to: 

• show how countries have aligned the levels of nursing and midwifery education with optimized roles within the health and academic systems such as optimizing medical colleges and universities to ensure no nurse or midwife is left behind; 
• demonstrate how countries are optimizing the domestic production of midwives and nurses to meet or surpass health system demand;
• share how designing education programmes can be competency-based, apply effective learning design, meet quality standards, and align with population health needs in a way that is supported by clinical practice opportunities and strengthening nursing and midwifery science;
• emphasize the need to ensure that faculty are properly trained, and have the clinical expertise in relevant content areas with the best pedagogical methods and technologies.

Speaker: Shoshy Goldberg

Purpose of the presentation: Recalling that the Global Strategic Direction for strengthening leadership of nurses and midwives is to, increase the proportion and authority of midwives and nurses in senior health and academic positions and continually develop the next generation of nursing and midwifery leaders, the purpose of the presentation is to set the scene for a discussion that will discuss how creating leadership opportunities is a strong factor in strengthening nursing and midwifery and is associated with better implementation and oversight of the nursing and midwifery workforce to ensure its alignment with key priority areas. The purpose of the session is to convey the importance that GCNMOs and senior nursing and midwifery leaders have on health, social care and health workforce policy to ultimately improve health outcomes. During the session different models of leadership will be shared as well as the main enablers to support nursing and midwifery leaders to work more effectively.