Changing the Narrative for Nursing Globally

Nancy Bolan; Yolanda Ogbolu

doi:10.5334/aogh.2807

Changing the Narrative for Nursing Globally

Annals of Global Health

Volume 86 (2020): Issue 1

By: Nancy Bolan and Yolanda Ogbolu

Open Access

|Apr 2020

Abstract

Worldwide celebration of the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife boosts innovative efforts by academic nursing schools to change the narrative for the nursing profession globally. These innovations have the potential to disrupt narratives that perpetuate negative perspectives and to replace them with counter-narratives that elevate, motivate and empower the professions to the benefit of health service delivery and health systems globally.

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