NANDA International President's Priorities 2008-2012

President's Priorities 2008-2012

The following priorities were outlined at the 2008 NANDA-I Conference by Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes, President, NANDA International:

Infrastructure
1. Embed the infrastructure changes put into place in 2008, including the role of the Executive Director, our new marketing and accounting systems and the website. 2. Ensure the financial status of the organization remains stable, well managed and constantly improved. 3. Ensure our partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, publishers of our materials and Journal, is a top priority.
Nursing Diagnosis Development
The work of the Diagnosis Development Committee is our core activity, and in acknowledgement of that, the following priorities are identified: 1. Ensure the level of evidence (LOE) continues to be advanced. 2. Seek greater involvement from nurses whose first language is not American English. 3. Ensure that diagnoses are written so they are easily translated into multiple languages. 4. Work actively on translation issues. 5. Include among DDC membership a linguistic expert, to be identified and appointed by the President. 6. Working with the President, initiate an online evaluation of those diagnoses that are particularly difficult to translate and set up a Task Force to resolve this problem.
NANDA-I Network Groups
The President and Executive Director will work to formalize the NANDA-I Network Groups, including: 1. Inviting Network Group Coordinators to join the Membership and External Affairs Committee. 2. Welcoming contact from potential Network Group Coordinators in Switzerland, Scandinavia and Honduras. 3. Continuing work with Network Group Coordinators to ensure that all of their members become NANDA International members (in accordance with our Bylaws) by June 1, 2009.
The NANDA-I Journal
Recognizing the huge improvement in the Journal, the President challenges the Editor and the Editorial Board to seek more clinically-focused, clinically-accessible papers. This initiative should include case studies and papers of interest to less experienced clinical nurses and nursing students.
2012 Conference Planning
The NANDA-I / AENTDE Joint International Nursing Diagnosis Congress will take place in Madrid, Spain, May 12-14, 2010. Conference planning is already underway.
Research and Education
In response to numerous requests, the President challenges the Research & Education Committee to develop a certification program for the teaching and implementation of Nursing Diagnosis, with an aim of launching the program in Madrid in 2010.