Empowering the Future: Unleashing the Potential of Young Nurse Leaders to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals - Online Course

The specific obstacles and opportunities that young nursing leaders must navigate call for a multifaceted strategy to be effective. Leaders at the bedside and in the global platforms require courage and daring leadership, which can be difficult to navigate. Some key elements in enabling young nurses to develop their leadership skills include effective mentoring, professional development programs, and creating a supportive environment which can still be challenging despite the accessibility of resources and information right at our fingertips. This webinar will explore the challenges and practical solutions for young nurse leaders while ensuring mental health balance as we strive to achieve this era's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This course will retire after 21st August 2026.

Learning Outcomes:
After participating in this course, learners will be able to:

• Recall at least one way a young nurse can enhance their leadership skills for a global impact.
• Identify practical solutions for young nurse leaders to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Speaker Bios:

Kathleen Eviza-Ford, MSN, RN-BC
Kathleen Eviza-Ford is a young global nurse leader and currently UN's Youth Representative. Alongside being a critical care nurse, Kathleen has been a recipient of several scholarships such as United Nations for Women in Global South from UN Vienna, Ireta Neumann Scholarship Award, Edith Anderson Leadership Grant, and Leaders and Educators Advancement Program (LEAP) scholarship for her master's degree and Nightingale Academic Excellence Award for her undergraduate degree. She has presented and co-authored research presentations around the world, the Philippines, Japan, Spain and USA to name a few.

Aimée Horcasitas Tovar, RN, BSN
Graduated in Nursing from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with the best GPA of her generation Elected as the first female National President of the Mexican Association of Nursing Students (AMEENF A.C.) for the period 2020-2022. United Nations representative of Sigma Nursing at the international level Member of the Tau Alpha chapter of Sigma Nursing, which recognized her as an "outstanding undergraduate student" in 2022. Co-Chair of the Americas Region of the Nursing Now Challenge Founding member of the Mexican Chapter of Women in Global Health (WGH) Speaker in multiple national and international sessions.