Against all the odds.
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Since 1993, the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health at Glasgow Caledonian University has hosted a World Health Organization collaborating centre helping nurses and midwives develop good practice in primary care. Now it has been elected to host the network secretariat.
Nancy Roper, Win Logan and Alison Tierney published their ground-breaking model of nursing in 1980, sparking the evolution of nursing theory from staid, biomedical thinking to an individualised, independent approach. Jane Salvage looks back at the lasting impact their research had on her and the profession as whole.
Since Saparmurat Niyazov became president of Turkmenistan, its healthcare system has spiralled downwards, with the closure of hospitals and the sacking of thousands of nurses. Turkmenistan became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Patients have to pay for their health care, but few can afford it. There is no distinct nursing role and no nursing leadership structure.
There is a lot of talk about caring abd empathy, but if it is not matched by appropriate, practical action it is empty. The third article in our Heart of Nursing series examines how the expression of caring feelings is socially and culturally constructed.
Worldwide, nursing shortages are most severe where the need is greatest. The 192 member states of the World Health Organization have set up a global partnership to identify urgent solutions.
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