A beautiful happy new year to all amazing nurses out there who have given their total selves to care. The single most important tool utilized by nurses indeed is the use of self. Welcome to 2020. An International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife set aside by the World Health Organization to celebrate nurses all over the world in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of the mother of Nursing, Florence Nightingale. Fig. 1.0 Source: American College of Nursing “This milestone celebration offers a platform to raise the visibility of nurses and increase the capacity of the nursing workforce. Nurses occupy many roles in our society and are on the front lines when it comes to immunizations, natural disaster preparedness, shaping health policy, and advocacy. For this reason, nurses are critical in improving the landscape of health and health care because an effective health care system is one that values all nurses.” {ANA President Ernest Grant, Ph.D., RN, FAAN} Year 2020 is defini...
The Nurses' Journal is a social community network for African Nurses, focused on the younger generation. A platform where aspiring and student nurses can nurture their passion, establish professional communal relationships, reflect and relearn from experiences, expand capacities, thereby, instilling personal and professional growth. In turn, we seek to reconstitute the building blocks that make up the nursing profession and strengthen its advancement in Africa.