CI International Advisory Council

The ANCC Board of Directors and staff would like to express our wholehearted appreciation to the distinguished members of the International Advisory Council. They have so generously given of their outstanding knowledge and expertise to lay a solid foundation for the operations of Credentialing International. We are deeply honored to have them as part of the organization.

Back row (from l.): YBM Si-sa President Sunshik Min, DBA (Korea); Landspitali University Hospital Director of Nursing Hrafn Oli Sigurdsson, PhD, RN, CNOR (Reykjavik, Iceland); New Zealand Ministry of Health Chief Advisor Nursing Frances Hughes, RN, BA, MA; Royal College of Nursing, Australia, Executive Director Rosemary Bryant, RN, BA, Grad Dip Hlth Admin, FRCNA. Middle row: College of Nursing Art and Sciences Professor Noriko Katada, RN, DNSc (Hyogo, Japan); University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Services and Policy Research Professor and Director Linda Aiken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FRCN (USA); Marketing Synectics President Andre van Niekerk, PhD (USA); The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Director of Nursing Denise Houghton, MBA, BA, RGN, RM, RHV, FWT (United Kingdom); YBM Si-sa Hee Soon Chun, RN, MSN (Korea). Front row: American Nurses Credentialing Center Executive Director Jeanne Floyd, PhD, RN, CAE (USA); ANCC International Advisory Council Co-Chair Fadwa Affara, RGN, SCM, MA, MSc (Scotland, United Kingdom); American Nurses Credentialing Center President Cecilia Mulvey, PhD, RN (USA); ANCC International Advisory Council Co-Chair Peggy Jones, MSN, MBA, RN, CNAA (USA). Not pictured: Irish Nurses Organization Director of Professional Development Annette Kennedy, MSc, BNS, RNT, RM, RGN; Health Canada Office of Nursing Policy Executive Director Judith Shamian, RN, PhD; Former International Council of Nurses President Kirsten Stallknecht, RN (Denmark).

ANCC International Advisory Council Meets

ANCC conducted the first International Advisory Council meeting at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., June 17-20, 2002. Participants from around the world were selected to attend.

This momentous event resulted from the ANCC Board of Directors' decision last December to create the Council. Its objective is to guide deliberations of the ANCC Board and its commissions on international business.

The ANCC Board believes that a disciplined approach to the development of global programmatic activities requires the guidance of experienced individuals who are internationally renowned market leaders and willing to provide the ANCC governing bodies with expertise upon which sound organizational decisions are based. These individuals, who are knowledgeable about the core issues surrounding cultural transferability, will enable the ANCC Credentialing International Program to move from an initial level of function to more sophisticated activities.

During the Council's meeting, participants formulated a blueprint and timeline for further developing the Credentialing International Program over the next three years. They discussed the elements that could facilitate or block proposed plans as well as solutions to eliminate the blocking elements. This blueprint is now guiding decisions for the Credentialing International Program.

Not-for-profit organizations that conduct international business often invest in the health care and nursing infrastructure of developing or low-income nations. To this extent, the ANCC has begun assuming its social responsibility by engaging in pilot projects and underwriting a significant amount of staff support and other costs. Over the last year, President Cecilia Mulvey and Executive Director Jeanne Floyd donated their professional skills to investigate the potential for introducing the Magnet concepts in Armenia, as well as Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia.

With Credentialing International, ANCC directors have realized that it is virtually impossible to segregate international operations from other main resource areas. As a result, staff from the Executive Services, Certification and Magnet programs serve dual roles responding to inquiries and collaborating on projects outside the United States, although Credentialing International is organized as a separate resource area.

Over time, and based on income from international activities, ANCC will employ staff and consultants to process the increasing workload efficiently and effectively. Its leadership and staff will participate in educational programs to achieve cultural competence. Within the next three years, staff responding to international inquires will comply with cultural competency standards now under construction. This level of staff ownership will be an incentive to build global markets for ANCC products and services.

In other international developments, the Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust in the United Kingdom received the prestigious ANCC Magnet Award. This is the first international organization to receive this designation. The volume of inquires regarding international interest in the Magnet Recognition Program^® is increasing steadily. In the future, it is projected that applications will be received from countries on several continents.

This page last revised 4/7/2006.