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NIS Nurse Leaders Address Management Issues at Workshop
Originally published in AIHA's CommonHealth, Winter 1998.From Almaty, Kazakstan to Odessa, Ukraine, AIHA's Nursing Resource Center (NRC) directors are promoting advanced nurse management training programs.
During the AIHA Nursing Management Workshop in L'viv, Ukraine last November, directors and assistant directors from 10 AIHA Nursing Resource Centers in the NIS discussed ways to enhance existing nurse training programs and promote interpartnership NRC activities. Topics of the week-long management and computer training program at the L'viv Institute of Management included worksite management education and a four-day basic computer training seminar. Nurses also participated in a two-day seminar on workplan development and grant application writing.
According to Svetlana Puriy, director of the Kiev NRC, the workshop gave her the tools necessary to develop an effective workplan for future nursing programs at the Kiev NRC.
Ludmila Kapitonova, director of the Odessa NRC in Ukraine—the first AIHA NRC—pointed out the importance of the program in enhancing nurse management skills. "If I would have had this information before my center opened, I could have avoided a lot of difficulties and problems," she said. Kapitonova plans to start a new management training program for nurses in the Odessa area.
