By: Meredith Wallace The increased numbers of older adults in the United States undoubtedly has a major impact on the demand of this population on the health care system. The Alliance for Aging Research (2002) reports that the average older…
Nursing leaders have long recognised that clear articulation of nursing practice is essential for full recognition of the breadth and depth of the profession. Florence Nightingale wrote in Notes on Nursing “the very elements of nursing are all but unknown”…
By: Hiroko Minami President, International Council of Nurses (Partial version) You have asked me to speak today on the Global Nursing Workforce: Problems and Perspectives. I am pleased to do so, as today we are immersed in a global health…