NECH-CIEH is creating a collaborative network of nurses as a building block towards positioning nurses to lead and promote better health practices in communities. To do so, we are expanding their knowledge and skills beyond their formal education so that nurses regain their voice and confidence as changemakers, and providing them with opportunities both within clinics and at the community level to lead and promote disease prevention.
To break down the silos across the health system and create a collaborative network, NECH-CIEH is tapping into the collective knowledge that nurses already have. For example, our Executive Director, Claudia Thomas Riché, has written ‘dilemma cases’ that engage nurses from different hospitals to work together to develop best practice scenarios to enhance patient outcomes.
NECH-CIEH also offers videoconference lectures to multiple healthcare sites on topics the nurses request; presentations are delivered in French, by nurses for nurses, on diverse topics such as Vital Signs, Neurological Triage, Nutrition, and Transformational Leadership. All lectures are recorded so nurses can access the education as their schedules and circumstances allow.