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📚 Now Available: A Global View on Clinical Autonomy for Advanced Practice Nurses

We are excited to celebrate the release of A Global View on Clinical Autonomy for Advanced Practice Nurses: Enhancing Decision-Making, Leadership, and Collaborative Care, a landmark publication exploring the evolving role of advanced practice nurses around the world.

This comprehensive resource brings together the expertise of international leaders to examine how clinical autonomy strengthens patient outcomes, expands access to care, and advances healthcare systems globally. With contributions from experts across multiple countries and specialties, including nurse anesthetists, it provides valuable insights for clinicians, educators, researchers, policymakers, and healthcare leaders.

We are especially proud that the book is edited by IFNA Executive Director Jackie Rowles, DNAP, CRNA, APRN, FAANA, FAAN, alongside distinguished global colleagues, and is endorsed by the International Council of Nurses (ICN), a testament to its significance for the advancement of advanced practice nursing worldwide.

📖 Learn more: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-21458-4

Wishing a joyful Eid Mubarak to our global nurse anesthesia community and all those celebrating around the world. May this special occasion bring peace, health, and happiness to you and your families. 🌙

Congratulations to the newly elected IFNA Executive Committee and Officers for the 2026–2028 term! 🌍

President: Hui-Ju Yang (Taiwan)
1st Vice-President: Kristian Civka (Croatia)
2nd Vice-President: Mary Mungai (Kenya)
Treasurer: Zorica Kardos (Slovenia)
Executive Director: Jackie Rowles (USA)

Executive Committee:
Manda Dunne (UK)
Nico Decock (France, not pictured)
Outi Huhtala (Finland)
Toñi Ballesteros (Spain)
Vera Meeusen (Australia)
Mohamed Mouhajir (Morocco)

We are grateful for your leadership, dedication, and commitment to advancing nurse anesthesia and strengthening our global community. As we begin this new term, we look forward to continued collaboration, innovation, and progress together.

Please join us in congratulating the 2026–2028 IFNA Executive Committee and Officers!

The ending of day 3 in Geneva was outstanding. Our very own IFNA 2nd VP, Mary Mugai from Kenya opened The Global Surgery Foundation side event and had the audience spellbound. She told the story of a preventable (for most of us) maternal and child death in Kenya. Much of the audience was moved to tears. Later while serving on a panel Mary advocated for provider education - which could have prevented the very deaths she detailed. Almost every panelist named Mary and spoke directly to her during a part of their response.
Thank you Mary - for what you do traveling all over Eastern Africa in remote and sometimes unsafe locations to educate nurse anesthetists and nurses! You are an inspiring role model for change.

Day 3 Geneva
Back at the International Red Cross Museum for the very first ever Nursing and Midwifery side event at the World Health Assembly. IFNA’s very own (2nd VP) Mary Mungai was sponsored by the Global Surgery Foundation to be a panelist speaking about Kenya’s very successful training program for nurse anesthetists. She was awesome! The WHO Chief Nurse and the ICN President were speakers along with a global midwifery leader. Jackie Rowles (IFNA Executive Director) was honored to be a closing speaker along with Jenny Gilbertson from the Laerdal Foundation. The room was packed!

Day 2 Geneva
Representing IFNA at the meeting of the WHO Acute Care Action Network.

Good morning from Geneva. Executive Director, Jackie Rowles, is representing IFNA today at the G4 Alliance (global alliance for surgery, obstetrics, trauma and anesthesia).

IFNA is also a sponsor to help with Monday’s first ever side event held during the World Health Assembly meeting that is all about Nursing!

More to come this week!

Today, on International Nurses Day 2026, the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists proudly celebrates nurses around the world for their compassion, expertise, resilience, and unwavering dedication to patient care.

We extend our deepest gratitude to all nurse anesthetists and nurses whose knowledge and commitment make a difference every single day — in operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency departments, and communities worldwide.

Your care saves lives. Your courage inspires. Your profession strengthens healthcare systems across the globe.

Happy International Nurses Day!