Upsilon Xi at-Large Chapter

This is a reminder that the Chapter's Annual General Meeting is being held at 3pm GMT on the 10th December 2025  via MS Teams. The agenda, notes and joining instructions have already been circulated via email. The meeting will be followed by our usual virtual festive celebration. Reports to be circulated shortly or tabled at the meeting.

All are welcome

 Wednesday 9th July at 5pm (BST)

Dr Malgorzata Nagórska, RM, BMSc, MA, PhD, FETNA

Associate Professor, Medical College, University of Rzeszow, Poland

will be presenting on 

`Awareness of women in Poland and Turkiye about Gynaecological Cancers'

Dr Malgorzata Nagórska is a midwife, sociologist, and specialist in obstetric nursing. She is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences and Psychology, Collegium Medicum, University of Rzeszow, Poland. She is a member of the Polish Midwives Association (PTP), European Transcultural Nursing Association (ETNA), Upsilon Xi at large Chapter, Wales of Sigma, Sigma European Research Committee, and Nursing Education Interest Group. She is a member of editorial boards of European Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Kontakt, European Journal of Midwifery, Journal of Midwifery and Health Sciences.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3229-1186

All welcome. To access via MS Teams and for further information please contact Prof Joy Merrell at j.a.merrell@swansea.ac.uk

Experiences of Missed nursing care in India: a mixed methods study – Qualitative findings

9^th July, 2025 at 1.30pm via MS TEAMS.

This has been postponed until later in the year.

I trust you are keeping well. I am delighted to report that we had a wonderful induction ceremony on the 14th May where we inducted and welcomed five new members. these new members are:

Frema Osei-Annor

Aswathy Asokan

Salini K

Mariann Fossum

We look forward to getting to know more about the new members in the coming months. The diversity of our chapter membership increases with new members joining us from Norway, Germany, India and Ghana.

The schedule of events for this year is located in the chapter library and I hope to see you at future events.

Kind regards

Joy

Join Us for International Nurses Day Celebration & Induction Ceremony
We warmly invite you to our celebration of International Nurses Day and the Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, 14 May at 3:00 PM (BST). Please check your local time zone.

The event will begin with a welcome address, followed by a presentation from Dr Lydia Boampong Owuso on her doctoral research titled: "Developing a Conceptual Framework for Research Utilisation in Clinical Nursing and Midwifery in Ghana."

We look forward to celebrating with you!

The date of our Annual general Meeting is 26th February 2025 at 3pm (GMT) via MS Teams.

The agenda, papers and joining instructions will be emailed to you within the next two weeks but for now please save the date. All are very welcome.