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United Nations Secretary General will convene a meeting in New York to call on donor

On September 22, 2010 the United Nations Secretary General will convene a meeting in New York to call on donor and developing country governments across the world to: show leadership by undertaking the bold commitments and new approaches needed to accelerate progress on maternal and child health. Each year, millions of women and children continue to die from preventable causes. It is up to donor and developing country governments alike to support the necessary interventions to make global promises a reality in a mutually accountable and transparent fashion.

• Background Briefing Paper
• Call to Action Paper

Reviewing locations to host 2013 ICNN

We are currently reviewing global locations to host our 2013 International Conference of Neonatal Nurses (ICNN). If you have suggestions please contact us at J.Zasada@coinnurses.org.

ICNN Abstract Notification

Presenters will be notified at the end of June 2010, as to whether their presentation will be included in the program.

Northeastern University Nursing Dean receives the 2010 Stan and Mavis Graven Award for Leadership

February 24, 2010 – Carole Ann Kenner, Dean of Northeastern University’s School of Nursing, is the recipient of the 2010 Stan and Mavis Graven Award for Leadership in Enhancing the Physical and Developmental Environment for High Risk Infants.

The Stan and Mavis Graven Award for Leadership is given annually to a professional who has made significant contributions to environmental and/or developmental care for high-risk infants and their families. Kenner, who received the award during the 23rd Annual Gravens Conference in Florida earlier this month, was nominated for the award by her colleagues for her dedication to neonatal nursing.

“Carole has dedicated more than 30 years to providing an evidence-based standard of education to neonatal nurses both nationally and internationally,” said Carol Jaeger, vice president of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, who presented Kenner with the award. “She has provided leadership not only in practice, but education, research and publication.  Her work has served as a guide to both nurses and interdisciplinary health professionals.”

Kenner joined the Northeastern’s faculty in January 2010 and is also Associate Dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. She received her BSN from the University of Cincinnati and her MSN and DNS from Indiana University at Indianapolis. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, one of the highest honors in nursing, and is serving as the President of the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, an organization she founded which represents 50 countries. Her outstanding achievements in the field of neonatal intensive care nursing have resulted in her being named the “mother” of neonatal nursing by colleagues and healthcare professionals.

Her primary research interests are in the area of transition from hospital to home for mothers and babies, perinatal substance abuse, the family context of clinical genetics, and the family context of parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer. The recurring theme of all her research is the family context and life transitions.

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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/

New Regional Representative

The COINN Board of Directors would like to welcome Johanna Nieminen as our most recent addition to the COINN family of Regional Representatives. Johanna is a NICU nurse working in Turku in the west of Finland. She is very active in the Finnish Neonatal Group and is also on the magazine board.  Please help us in making Johanna feel welcome!  She can be reached at: johanna.nieminen@netti.fi.

Helping Haiti...

The Council of International Neonatal Nurses would like to convey our sincere sympathy to the people of Haiti, their families and loved ones around the world.  If you would like to donate to those in need – you can do so by contacting your local Red Cross, or one of the many disaster registries and response organizations.  Those nurses wishing to donate their time are encouraged to do so; the people of Haiti need you now more than ever.

Nepal PICU/NICU Project

A message from Michele Avila, RN, CCRN, CCNS, CPNP-AC Program Coordinator, PICU/NICU Project.

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Secretary Clinton to Commemorate 15th Anniversary of International Conference on Population and Development

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a Major Speech on Friday, January 8th, renewing U.S. support for Universal Access to Reproductive Health Worldwide, and its dedication to reaching the ICPD goals and other related UN agreements including the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Please visit ICPD website at: http://www.icpd2015.org/

Our STORE is Open for Business!

After many hours of hard work by our website designer, we are so happy and excited to be able to bring you our COINN Store.  In it you will find many items - HANDMADE by women in Kenya and brought to us through the Miriam Mubichi Foundation.  These items are for sale and can ship in time for the Holidays so please take a minute to see what we have and remember that each purchase you make will help women and children in Kenya through the Miriam Mubichi Foundation and COINN.

We will be adding items periodically, so continue to watch our site for our newest additions.  Some items we are currently working on:  a COINN coin - I know that sounds confusing but wait until you see it!!  We are also working on a COINN membership pin and will have books for sale on the website also!! 

And remember if you ever have any questions about COINN, our works, our website or any other questions, don't hesitate to contact us. 

We are excited about a new project that we are currently working on!

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 currently 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.

Excellence against all odds-Researching solutions to global issues

Date: October 24th - October 27th, 2010
Location: Durban, SOUTH AFRICA

The Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN) together with the Neonatal Nurses Association of Southern Africa (NNASA) are hosting the 7th International Conference for Neonatal Nurses (ICNN).

Many thanks to Cardinal Health International for being our first sponsor for this exciting event!

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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.

Technical Expert Group meeting on Post Partum Haemorrhage report

The Department of Making Pregnancy Safer of World Health Organization (WHO) is happy to inform you that Technical Expert Group meeting on Post Partum Haemorrhage report is now posted on the website: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2007/WHO_MPS_07.06_eng.pdf.

For access to other documents please visit our website: http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/en/index.html and click on publications.

For more information about the department, please visit the department of making pregnancy safer website: http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/en/

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 or via fax to: 815-344-6238.

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.

Honoring One Of Our Own: The Donna L. Wong Professorship of Pediatric Nursing Research.

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