Student Assembly - Agenda

The 2025 ICN Student Assembly: "The Power of Student Nurses to Change the Landscape of Nursing" is a transformative day-long event designed to equip students and early career nurses with the tools to drive change in global health and the nursing profession. Taking place on June 8, 2025 alongside the Council of National Nursing Associations, the Assembly connects student and early career nurses with each other and with global nurse leaders, enabling them to build networks and exchange ideas.

The Assembly empowers participants to tackle pressing global health issues, enhance their own health and well-being, and become advocates for impactful change in healthcare. All attendees will have the opportunity to learn and engage as observers, with interventions by Student and Early Career Nurses (SECN) Alliance representatives throughout the event to highlight important perspectives and solutions.

The aim of this event is for attendees to learn actionable insights on addressing global health challenges, skills to promote well-being within the profession, and a powerful platform to amplify the role of nurses worldwide. With over 300 student and early career nurses from diverse backgrounds and interpretation provided in English, French, and Spanish, the Assembly fosters a truly inclusive, global exchange of ideas.

It is open to undergraduate and graduate nursing students, as well as early career nurses (within three years of registration and actively practicing).

Registration for the Student Assembly will open soon! Stay tuned for details!

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