Addressing the challenges of the global nursing community.
OBJECTIVE
To describe both the initial and the subsequent impact of the 2001 Global Nursing Partnerships Conference: 'Strategies for a Sustainable Workforce', the first ever forum of its type, on the key challenges facing the global nursing community.


METHODS
Identification of short- and long-term outcomes through descriptive review of immediate post-conference evaluations and follow-up questionnaires sent out 13 months later to nursing leaders in the participating countries.


METHODS
Content analysis of quantitative data from 61 immediate post-conference evaluations and 13 follow-up questionnaires, as well as qualitative data from participant comments on the evaluation forms and questionnaires.


RESULTS
Analysis indicated conference participants viewed the conference as a beneficial forum to collaboratively examine nursing workforce issues and trends, develop country-specific nursing action plans, establish and strengthen national and international partnerships, and build stronger international nursing bodies.


CONCLUSIONS
The Global Nursing Partnerships Conference was an international success--addressing the unique challenges facing nursing leaders in developed and developing countries and the needs of nurses throughout the world.
Swenson
M J
MJ
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. mswenso@emory.edu
Salmon
M E
ME
Wold
J
J
Sibley
L
L
D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D000078329:Workforce