The 2023-2025 Organizational Call to Action is Represent.

We are all leaders, and we must represent our unique selves and collective change in our shared world. Therefore, Sigma President Dr. Sandra C. Garmon Bibb challenges us all to represent the best of our individuality and shared contributions to our profession in three ways: Reflect, Respect, and Respond.

Watch this video to learn more about the call to action.

Caring is who we are and what we do, as individuals and as a caring culture. We can and should model and reflect our commitment to care of self, care of others, and care of the environment. 

Care of Self - Self-care is an individual practice and should be shaped to fit who we are, but as Sigma nurses, we all have the opportunity to reflect self-care.

Care of Others - Sigma offers members an opportunity to reflect Sigma’s inclusive, integrated art-and-science of nursing approach to developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve health care everywhere as we mobilize our skills, expertise, and experiences in our day-to-day lives and connect with others to transform global healthcare.

Care of the Environment - Sigma is committed to providing education, support, resources, and opportunities to engage in advocacy and be the change we want to see in Care of the Environment. Advocacy here means “any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports or defends, or pleads on the behalf of others.”

To cultivate is to acquire, develop, demonstrate, and define. As a caring culture we have an opportunity to model keys to cultivating cultural humility, as we commit to:

Listen - Through an ongoing process of compassionate self-awareness, others' awareness, self-evaluation, and self-critique.

Learn - With humility, grace, and a growth mindset, learn about others’ culture/cultural influences/identities but start with an examination of our own culture/cultural influences/identities.

Lead - Commit to a lifelong process of cultural humility; recognize power dynamics and imbalances and a desire to fix those imbalances; and develop partnerships with people and groups who advocate for others.

Despite what may be going on around us,
• professionalism,
• perspective, and
• perseverance
are key as we respond to the demands of modern-day nursing and represent a group of influential nurse leaders who are connected, empowered, and well-positioned to transform global healthcare and add value to the world.

Acting quickly, positively, and consistently in modeling professionalism, perspective, and perseverance represents a nursing profession and a Sigma organization in which leaders consistently act in ways that help team members to thrive, and team members consistently act in ways that help other team members to thrive. As a result, the organization can care very well for customers.

We know that recent and current disruptions to the world and to the nursing workforce, including COVID, systemic bias, burnout, violence against nurses, and staffing shortages will continue. We have yet to see what impacts artificial intelligence will have. As Sigma members we must respond to the demands of contemporary nursing practice with
• professionalism,
• perspective, and
• perseverance

with support from our Sigma community and the many resources available to us.

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Learn more about Sigma President Dr. Sandra C. Garmon Bibb

 

A NURSE FIRST PODCAST EPISODE
A career grounded in service
S3 | Bonus Episode

In this bonus episode of A Nurse First, Sigma president Sandra C. Garmon Bibb shares her incredible career journey and the many firsts she has experienced along the way. From making tremendous decisions to facing challenges head-on, Sandra's story is one of inspiration. Listen now » 

  

About the Organizational Call to Action

Each biennium, Sigma installs a new president at the international level. At the 47th Biennial Convention, we proudly installed Sandra C. Garmon Bibb, DNSc, RN, FFNMRCSI, FAAN, and introduced her as the 35th president of Sigma. With influence from the Board of Directors, each president presents a call to action to help guide members and chapters as we strive to fulfill our mission.