title: Addressing the challenges of the global nursing community.
abstract: 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.
authors: The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. mswenso@emory.edu
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Swenson
authors: M E
authors: ME
authors: Salmon
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Wold
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Sibley
mesh_terms: 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