Contemporary approaches to nursing education requires programmes to be evidenced based and delivered by nursing educators who are educated to a level appropriate to their role. Traditional approaches to nursing education needs to be replaced by new models that are able to address the severe shortage of nurses in the Caribbean and provide nurses with the necessary competencies to practice safely in a changing healthcare environment. Nursing education must be designed to enable students to effectively integrate theoretical and clinical knowledge and to gain practice experience in a range of facilities beyond the hospital setting. Therefore the UWI School of Nursing in collaboration with the Jamaica Midwives Association is hosting The Annual Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference and Mary J Seivwright Research Day on May 26- 27, 2011 focusing on "Transforming Nursing Education in the Caribbean."

The Conference will be held on 26- 27 May 2011 at the UWI School of Nursing in Kingston, Jamaica. A Dinner will be on the evening of the 26th at the UWISON Courtyard, Mary J. Seivwright Buliding, 9 Gilbraltar Camp Way, UWI, Mona Campus starting at 7:00pm.