Participate in Population and Global Health Projects

As a student leader, you'll learn and practice essential leadership skills by participating in community health and disaster preparedness projects sponsored by your school NSNA chapter. NSNA members may earn formal credit for the leadership service learning that is inherent in community health and disaster preparedness activities. Consider approaching faculty to explore the possibility of having your start-a-chapter experience counted toward course requirements or independent study elective credit. Use your course syllabus to see if you can meet the objectives with the following leadership activities.

Population and Global Health Project Activities
  • Establish a Population and Global Health Committee, or;
  • Serve as a member of the school chapter or state Population and Global Health Leadership Team (i.e., Committee; Board of Directors/Executive Board).
  • Accomplish the goals and objectives of the Population and Global Health Committee.
  • Incorporate the 4 signposts of Professional Identity  in Nursing into your leadership formation.
    1. ​​​​​​​Ethics and Values:  Help members incorporate NSNA’s Core Values and Code of Ethics into the nursing profession by producing online and in-person education.
    2. Knowledge:  Facilitate learning related to professional identity and why it is important to a diverse nursing workforce.  We will offer identity formation in course offerings and simulation.
    3. Leadership: Prepare nursing students with leadership skills to enter the nursing profession. 
    4. Professional Comportment:  Foster nursing students that think, act and feel like professional nurses.
Andrea Wollitz,  2022-2023 Director and Chair, Population and Global Health Committee, speaks on "I.M.P.A.C.T. - Improving Mental Public Accessed Care Together" during the 2022 NSNA Leadership U Summer Summit.

Disaster Preparedness Activities

Population and Global
​ Health Activities
For a list of attributes and ​competencies for future nurse leaders and managers, click here.
​For a FREE version of the Leadership Assessment for Student Nurses, click here.