Twitter campaign marks International Nurses Day

Glasgow Caledonian University launched a Twitter campaign highlighting local, national and international projects which help future nurses to mark International Nurses Day (IND2022) today (Thursday, May 12).

International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. Each year, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) identifies a theme for the day and this year it’s ‘Nurses: A Voice to Lead - Invest in Nursing and respect rights to secure global health’.

Over the course of the day, staff in GCU’s Department of Nursing and Community Health will run a Twitter campaign featuring an hourly release of tweets highlighting projects and developments that address the sub-themes identified by the ICN.

The themes include investing in better health service delivery, safety, health and wellbeing of nurses and healthcare workers, as well as education, jobs and leadership.

Here are some examples of how GCU’s Department of Nursing and Community Health is striving to improve education and leadership for future nurses.

The Department has partnered with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Scottish health boards to provide a funded PgD in Nurse Cystoscopy that supports nurses to develop to advanced practitioner level through evidenced-based curriculum, simulated education and work-based education.

This educational approach to cystoscopy is a starting point for the development of structured education for clinical nurse specialists and advanced clinical nurse specialists in Scotland – GCU is the first university to do this and align directly with the new transforming roles.

NES have developed a TURAS digital health and care leadership programme for all healthcare employees to access, GCU has been involved in promoting this to post-registration candidates as part of the CPD within their role in service.

A Here for Life campaign will be launched on International Nurses Day in partnership between the Chief Nursing Officers of the UK and Ireland and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Foundation.

It has been devised to support the launch of Enabling Professionalism 2022 - a new framework that will help nurses and midwives confidently articulate who they are, what they do and what nursing and midwifery ‘is’ in 2022.