When is nurses day 2017

Each of us can contribute towards recruitment of nurses by the way we personally present the image of nursing. We can also contribute towards retention of nurses in the way we treat and support our colleagues.

We can expand our role in coordinating health, social and support services to address the social determinants and lifestyle factors contributing to health problems. Nurses should keep informed of the public social services; non-governmental welfare agencies; as well as community organizations, support, and activity groups to which they can refer their patients. This could range from food aid and housing to referring a lonely aged person to a social club, or advise a COPD patient to join a choir to improve his breathing.

Be willing to engage with change, or even better, be the change agent. Use your insights and creativity to find solutions and introduce innovation. Most innovation does not come out of a laboratory but from the staff working in organizations coming up with ways of doing things differently, or doing different things, to improve efficiency, effectiveness and better access to health care.

Become an activist and leader in issues where change is needed within your community or society at large. You can use social media networks responsibly to help create public awareness of problems and possible solutions. We've moved to a new site! Skip to main content. This would entail: Ensuring an educated, competent and motivated nursing and midwifery workforce within effective and responsive health systems at all levels and in different settings; optimizing policy development, effective leadership, management and governance; working together to maximize the capacities and potentials of nurses and midwives through intra- and inter-professional collaborative partnerships, education and continuing professional development, and; mobilizing political will to invest in building effective evidence-based nursing and midwifery workforce development.

STOP Gender-based violence at work! Two thousand Tunisian municipal cleaners demand safe working conditions and statutory recognition for their profession. Celebrating National Nurses Day and Week Leave A Comment Cancel reply Comment. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. She lived in the 19th century and was the founder of modern nursing. International Nurses Day was first celebrated by International Council of Nurses ICN in but in , the celebration was moved to May 12 and has remained so till date.

The kit usually contains public information materials. Nurses are the fast and first point of contact for health services. Nurses are innovatively practised improving the physical and mental needs of patients as well as attend to their overall well-being. This tradition symbolises the passing of knowledge from one nurse to another.

By Lolade Nwanze.