Nursing Now Challenge

Por Geraldine Jiménez Pérez and Daniel A. Guerrero G.

This Sigma initiative comes as a response to the year of nursing in 2020 This program seeks to foster leadership in nursing professionals, connect mentors with mentees for the development of their professional lives and promote excellence in nursing through networking In 2023, the fourth cohort of young nursing professionals from all over the world began, with a common interest, development and training in leadership The Upsilon Nu Chapter has been represented by Cristian David Cifuentes in the third cohort, Geraldine Jiménez Pérez and Daniel Arturo Guerrero Gaviria in the fourth cohort

The Nursing Now Challenge is structured in 12 meetings a year, one a month, synchronously in which scholars meet to listen and discuss topics of interest in training and leadership Within the meetings we talk about what is leadership?, the value of professional organizations, mentoring, professional identity, advocacy, equity, nursing leadership, among others Each meeting involves different experts in the area who not only share their knowledge and experiences, but also promote the participation of attendees.

As part of the training process in nursing leaders, the Challenge has a mentoring program, through which scholars identify a nursing leader they would like to be their mentor and the management is made to formalize it with a written document. This document is an agreement in which