The Office of Global Nursing, a new joint initiative
of the university's School of Nursing and the hospital's
Department of Nursing, will now serve as the central point
for coordinating and supporting international activities
for Hopkins Nursing.
As a component of the
Institute for Johns
Hopkins Nursing — the cooperative partnership of
the School of
Nursing and the Department of Nursing — the
Office of Global Nursing has been created to facilitate
international education of nursing students, provide
support to global nursing research activities, encourage
international nursing practice projects and coordinate
global nursing service outreach practice.
The OGN will also work closely with Johns Hopkins
Medicine International, the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public
Health and
JHPIEGO — and with its core partners, the School
of Nursing and the Department of Nursing — to provide
consultation services, educational programs and site visits
to nurse and health care organizations worldwide.
Jane C. Shivnan, coming from her roles as the Johns
Hopkins Hospital Magnet coordinator and assistant director
of oncology nursing, is leading the new office.
"Our mission is to share the excellence and innovation
in practice, science and scholarship of Johns Hopkins
Nursing with other health care professionals locally,
nationally and worldwide," she said at an all-school
meeting held Nov. 21. "This is an incredible opportunity to
provide IJHN programs globally, build upon JHUSoN existing
international relationships and allow us to use
distance-learning methods to reach and teach nurses."
Shivnan said she expects the OGN will not only support
but also expand the current SoN collaborations in
Switzerland, Lebanon, Thailand, Sweden, South Africa,
Turkey, Slovenia and China. Key among the initial
activities that Shivnan and the OGN have undertaken is a
survey designed to identify Johns Hopkins nurses, nursing
faculty and students interested in OGN activities. The
survey can be accessed through the Institute for Johns
Hopkins Nursing Web site,
www.ijhn.jhmi.edu,
or directly at
www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=243491494787.