2020 international year of the nurse and midwife and international nurses’ day
| Autor: | Carol M. Baldwin, Barbara Dossey |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Vol 20, Iss 5, Pp 165-169 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2160-6773 |
| Popis: | No abstract available. Article truncated after first 150 words. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife to acknowledge the contributions of nurses and midwives in promoting the health and welfare of populations across the globe. This recognition is in concert with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. Although nurses and midwives make up over half the world’s health care workforce, the WHO estimates that 2020 will see a shortage of 9 million nurses (1,2). International Nurses’ Week begins May 6th and culminates on May 12th, International Nurses Day, the anniversary of Nightingale’s birth with hopes of bringing greater re, cognition nurses play in local to global health. Defying expected Victorian norms for women born to well-connected, affluent British families in the middle of the nineteenth century, Florence Nightingale chose the art and science of nursing over marriage. “Nightingale” is synonymous with the foundation of professional nursing, as … |
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