Nurses Learning to be Powerful Leaders: What Will It Take?

The attention of the world has been on nurses in the past two years. Because of the pandemic, they have been applauded and their work featured on national news in many countries. However, nurses were not generally seen at press briefings, nor interviewed as experts on any aspect of pandemic control or treatment.

Nurses and Midwives as Global Partners to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene.

Purpose: To highlight ongoing and emergent roles of nurses and midwives in advancing the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 at the intersection of social and economic inequity, the climate crisis, interprofessional partnership building, and the rising status and visibility of the professions worldwide.

Design: Discussion paper.

Methods: Literature review.

Reforming medical education admission and training in low- and middle-income countries: who gets admitted and why it matters.

Recent studies reveal public-sector healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are frequently absent from work, solicit informal payments for service delivery, and engage in disrespectful or abusive treatment of patients. While extrinsic factors may foster and facilitate these negative practices, it is not often feasible to alter the external environment in low-resource settings. In contrast, healthcare professionals with strong intrinsic motivation and a desire to serve the needs of their community are less likely to engage in these negative behaviors and may draw upon internal incentives to deliver a high quality of care.

#Nursing Now.

Nurses are the largest group in the global health workforce, but due to social, political, and gender inequality, traditionally their role has been undervalued. Nursing Now is a 3-year campaign which aims to empower nurses worldwide by building grassroots support to demand better investment in nursing and midwifery to tackle 21st-century health challenges.

The Importance of Mental Well-Being for Health Professionals During Complex Emergencies: It Is Time We Take It Seriously.

We call on humanitarian aid organizations to integrate proven mental health strategies to protect the mental health of their workforce and improve staff capacity to provide care for vulnerable populations. Such strategies could include: Pre-deployment training. Art therapy.

Will they stay or will they go? Putting theory into practice to guide effective workforce retention mechanisms.

Policy makers in healthcare in all countries are faced with challenges of designing and implementing strategies that will achieve three major and essential goals: produce enough health workers for a cost-effective skills mix to deliver high-quality care; attract trained health workers into the workforce; and deploy health workers where they are most needed and keep them there. Yet these apparently straightforward strategies are seldom wholly successful, and there is little clear evidence to guide the frustrated policy maker. This paper explores the reasons why it may be so difficult to come up with strategies that guarantee success and looks at what we do know about attracting, retaining and motivating health workers to get them and keep them working productively where they are most needed.

Sharing best practices through online communities of practice: a case study.

Introduction: The USAID-funded Capacity Project established the Global Alliance for Pre-Service Education (GAPS) to provide an online forum to discuss issues related to teaching and acquiring competence in family planning, with a focus on developing countries' health related training institutions. The success of the Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery's ongoing web-based community of practice (CoP) provided a strong example of the successful use of this medium to reach many participants in a range of settings.

Case Description: GAPS functioned as a moderated set of forums that were analyzed by a small group of experts in family planning and pre-service education from three organizations.

Capacity for progress.

Information technology is set to transform health services in low resource countries, benefits which could filter down to their wealthier counterparts.

Sub-Saharan Africa: beyond the health worker migration crisis?

Migration of skilled health workers from sub-Saharan African countries has significantly increased in this century, with most countries becoming sources of migrants. Despite the growing problem of health worker migration for the effective functioning of health care systems there is a remarkable paucity and incompleteness of data. Hence, it is difficult to determine the real extent of migration from, and within, Africa, and thus develop effective forecasting or remedial policies.

Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis.

In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative-a consortium of more than 100 health leaders-proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries. Nearly all countries are challenged by worker shortage, skill mix imbalance, maldistribution, negative work environment, and weak knowledge base. Especially in the poorest countries, the workforce is under assault by HIV/AIDS, out-migration, and inadequate investment.

Imbalance in the health workforce.

Imbalance in the health workforce is a major concern in both developed and developing countries. It is a complex issue that encompasses a wide range of possible situations. This paper aims to contribute not only to a better understanding of the issues related to imbalance through a critical review of its definition and nature, but also to the development of an analytical framework.

Migration of health-care workers from developing countries: strategic approaches to its management.

Of the 175 million people (2.9% of the world's population) living outside their country of birth in 2000, 65 million were economically active. The rise in the number of people migrating is significant for many developing countries because they are losing their better-educated nationals to richer countries.

Developing evidence-based ethical policies on the migration of health workers: conceptual and practical challenges.

It is estimated that in 2000 almost 175 million people, or 2.9% of the world's population, were living outside their country of birth, compared to 100 million, or 1.8% of the total population, in 1995.

Best infection control practices for intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular needle injections.

Objective: To draw up evidence-based guidelines to make injections safer.

Methods: A development group summarized evidence-based best practices for preventing injection-associated infections in resource-limited settings. The development process included a breakdown of the WHO reference definition of a safe injection into a list of potentially critical steps, a review of the literature for each of these steps, the formulation of best practices, and the submission of the draft document to peer review.