First meetings for 2023 Our first get together as a club in 2023 was Tuesday the 10th January and our guest speaker was Craig Fitzpatrick from the World Continuing Education Alliance. An interesting presentation outlining how professional development can be maintained for health care professionals in low and middle income countries.
Our first education session was led by Eve Fraser who discussed her passion in prevention of drowning by promoting global water safety. On UN World Drowning prevention Day July 25th 2022, Eve became Charter President of the Global Water Safety & Drowning Prevention Rotary Club. It has since been hailed by industry experts as the most significant intervention in reducing the number of preventable deaths by drowning around the world. Eve discussed a number of programmes which have been introduced - focusing on water safety, learning to swim, training local people to become swim trainers.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday 14th February. Our guest speakers will be Karen and Tania, Paramedical Science students who received the Ferro Grant from the Rotary Club of Toowong. They will present their experiences as students in Rotary. James Bronola will be sharing his culinary delights from the Philippines. The recipe is now available in this bulletin. See the link below
To our colleagues who will be presenting at the ICN Congress in Montreal.
CONGRATULATIONS to our members who will be presenting at the ICN Congress in Montreal.
We are delighted to announce we have three members presenting at the ICN conference in Montreal in July 2023. The theme for the Congress is Nurses together: a force for global health
President Mavis who will be delivering a presentation about the GNMRC.
One of our newest Rotarians, Dolly Akter, is also presenting.
Congratulations to President Elect, Rudson on being nominated for an Australia Day award. The nomination was for Communication Service under Multicultural Organisations.
Have you registered with MY Rotary yet ?
A big thank you to all members who have registered with My Rotary between September and now.
It would be great to see 100% of our members registered by the end of January.
My Rotary really is a rich resource of ideas about RI and different roles within clubs.
Nicole Purcell has the role of Education Lead for the club. Nicole is looking forward to ensuring quality education / information sessions for our members on the 4th Tuesday of each month.
If you have an idea for a presenter / topics please let Nicole know, she would love to hear from you. Nicole can be contacted at kelsoqueen29@gmail.com.
Protecting the Environment - One of the 7 areas of Focus for Rotary
On the 22nd December, 2022, Past President Wendy conducted a Q&A zoom with Dr Nina Lansbury from UQ about climate change, health provision and Rotary. The full video is available in our vimeo site. The link below is a snippet from the interview
Wendy would also like to have a member of the GNMRC join her in writing an article about their experiences as nurses and midwives around the changes they have experienced related to climate events. So stay tuned for an email from Wendy.
We are a very busy Club - below is a snapshot of the projects that we are currently involved in.
End Polio Now
The Three C's Cafe
Project lead for the Three Cs, Wendy, has sent an email to members, inviting them to become cafe facilitators so that we can increase our numbers of facilitators. She will be running an information session on Wednesday 9th February 1800-1900 AEST to inform members about the facilitator training process. If you are interested in being part of this project, please email Wendy at wendy@davaar.com.au
Please see the video below which also provides great information about this fantastic initiative.
Shelter Box is an exceptional organisation that our Club has partnered with. They provide emergency relief to people around the world who have been made homeless by natural disasters and conflict.
We have pledged to fund five Shelter Boxes each year for the next 3 years. The cost is $1000 per Shelter Box and we raise funds for this through raffles and events held at Education Conferences conducted by the Nurses for Nurses Network and Education at Sea.
A big thank you to the work of Sue, Jason and Louise to make this happen. Shelterbox is very active in Pakistan currently due to the major flooding that has caused devastation recently.
Project lead Cecelia Flomo invites members of the club who are interested in being involved in this project to contact her and then, as a team, they can determine future progress for the project
The Florence Nightingale International Foundation (FNIF), the charitable arm of ICN, launched the Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF) in 2005 with the mission of supporting access to education for the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries.
The Rotary Solar Case has been developed, first and foremost, to provide light in remote health centres, aiding health workers where the availability of electricity is problematic at the best of times. The ability to provide portable lights for village birthing assistants is a major priority in areas where women often give birth in village huts or village health centres where the light from kerosene lanterns or mobile phones is otherwise the best available alternative.
If you want to know the date of any of the Club Meetings or Events then go to the events page on the website.
Meeting agendas and minutes are sent out by the club Secretary attached to an email a few days before the meeting takes place. If you are not receiving those emails then contact the Club Secretary on secretary.gnmrotaryclub@gamail.com
February's Recipe
Song & Dance Fundraiser Update
2023
24th-26th March - District 9620 Conference Leadership Hands, Mind Heart & Mind Brisbane Australia. The conference will be celebrating 100 years of Rotary in Qld. There is a great line up of speakers (see link below). Registration for the conference is also in the link. It would be great to have a good representation from our club attend the conference and a great change for us to catch up in the same space together.
27th-31st May - Rotary International Conference - Melbourne Australia
11th-14th June - ICM Triennial Congress - Bali Indonesia
We have created a Global Nurses and Midwives Club Brochure that we can use to give out to people in they are interested in joining us or want to know what we are about.
Please have a look at the Brochure and distribute it to Nurses and Midwives who you think would be interested in Joining our Club.
If you would like to present to other Nursing colleagues or to other Rotary Clubs in your area about the Global Nurses and Midwives Rotary Club Wendy and her team have created a Powerpoint presentation and notes to assist you.
As with all the documents that are referred to in the Bulletin these resources are available for you to download from the website. Just log in to the Member's area and choose the documents tab. Our website address is https://gnmrotaryclub.com/
Have you accessed the Members Website?
The Members area of the Global Nurses and Midwives Website houses a lot of information about our club.
You can find all the documents that are discussed at meetings and in the Bulletin, plus check your own details, communicate with other Members and there is an App you can download so you can access info anywhere, anytime.
