Student Assembly - Schedule

 

 

08 June 2025 - Maximum 200 participants 

 

Time 

Title 

Overview 

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Registration and Doors open

 

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks & Introduction

  • Welcome address
  • Overview of the day's themes and objectives 

9:15 AM - 9:20 AM

Introduction

  • Overview of the session, give important to student and early career nurse mental health

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Mental Health of Students and Early Career Nursess

  • Discuss the current state of mental health among students and early career nurses
  • Highlight the signs of burnout, its impacts, and strategies for prevention
  • Share relevant statistics and studies to emphasize the importance of mental health awareness

9:40 AM-10:10 AM 

Challenges Faced by Students and Early Career Nurses

  • Financial Stressors of Students 
  • Interventions for Mental Health Challenges as Student 
  • Real Student Experiences and Coping Strategies 
  • Transitioning to Practice 

10:20 AM-10:40 AM 

Panel Discussion

  • What can individual student and early career nurses do at their school, community, regional or national levels to better advocate for student mental health ?
  • What’s the role of national nurse associations in ensuring student’s are supported through school and their early careers ?
  • What’s the best way to apply the interventions we discussed today across a variety of different socio-economic settings ? How might the interventions be adapted for local cultural needs ?

10:40 AM-10:55 AM 

Q&A

  • Question from all audience members

10:55 AM-11:00 AM 

Concluding remarks

 

11:00 AM -11:30 AM   

Coffee Break 

 

11:30 AM-12:00 PM 

Introduction to the SECN Alliance

  • An overview of the development of SECN Alliance, Introduce the SECN Alliance Steering Committee
  • Welcome, introduction of Steering Committee members
  • Overview of goals, responsibilities, participation

12:00 AM-1:00 PM 

SECN Alliance Representative Interventions 

  • 2-minute interventions for 15 preselected Alliance Representatives (remarks on any aspect of student and early career nursing well-being) 

1:00 PM-2:00 PM 

Lunch  

  • Lunch with CNR
  • Networking opportunities for participants to engage with presenters and each other

2:00 PM-2:10 PM 

What is Global Health, and How Can Nurses Lead Beyond Clinical Nursing ?

  • Overview: The keynote introduces global health as addressing cross-border issues shaped by social and environmental factors.
  • Objectives: Show how nurses in policy can drive change and advocate on a large scale and highlight examples of nurses shaping global health policy.
  • Connecting Themes, discuss how the following session will cover 6 very different themes as an introduction to students to these themes

2:20 PM - 2:30 PM 

Nurse Migration

  • High level overview, an overview of examples of what speakers are doing to help these issues, the speakers career path, how student and early career nurses can get involved
  • All topics were identified by Student Assembly Planning Committee as topics of interest for nursing students

2:30 PM - 2:40 PM 

LGBTQIA+ Health Equity 

2:40 PM - 2:50 PM 

Access to Women’s Health Services

2:50 PM - 3:00 PM 

Nursing in Conflict Settings

3:10 PM - 3:15 PM 

Concluding remarks

  • Encourage nurses to learn about the issues facing our world and find ways to get involved in direct care, advocacy and action, research and leadership. 

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM 

Break 

 

3:30 AM – 4:30 PM 

SECN Interventions

  • 2-minute interventions for 15 preselected SECN Alliance Representatives

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM 

Call to be Leaders Today 

  • Each member of the SECN Alliance Steering Committee calls on participants to take action and get involved in leadership
  • 5 minutes each, followed by concluding remarks from the Steering Committee Chair

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM 

Sitz Party 

  • Meet and Greet networking hour with light non-alcoholic refreshments
  • Will include a demonstration of a Finnish university tradition that involved following a leader in drinking, eating, and songs
  • This activity is option and not required for students to receive a certificate of competition of the day