Skip to main content

Globally, 70% of the health and social workforce are women. Nurses and midwives represent a large portion of this.” #Nuses2020 #HealthAttendant

To mark the 200thbirth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, World Health Organization has designated the year 2020 as “International Year for Nurse and Midwife” and is calling for us “to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and remind the world leaders of the critical role they play in keeping the world healthy, on World Health Day, this April 7th.


  • “Globally, 70% of the health and social workforce are women. Nurses and midwives represent a large portion of this.”
  •  In India, the number of health workers reported in 2001 were 20,69,540 out of which 6,30,406 are nurses and midwives.
  • “Nurses and midwives play a key role in caring for people everywhere, including in times of outbreaks and settings that are fragile or in conflict.”
  •  “Achieving health for all will depend on there being sufficient numbers of well-trained and educated, regulated and adequately supported nurses and midwives, who receive pay and recognition commensurate with the services and quality of care that they provide.” 
  •  “Nurses and midwives have a relationship with their patients that is based on trust; knowing the full picture of someone’s health helps improve care and saves money. They also know the cultures and practices of their communities, making them indispensable during an outbreak or emergency.”
  •  “Investing more in midwives, who are critical for maternal and newborn health as well as for family planning, could avert over 80% of all the maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths that occur today.” 
  •  “Many countries need to do more to ensure that nurses and midwives can work in an environment where they are safe from harm, respected by medical colleagues and community members, and where their work is integrated with other health-care professionals.” 
  • “COVID-19 highlights how important it is for all nurses to have access to the most up-to-date knowledge and guidance required to respond to such outbreaks. It also underscores the critical (and often unmet need) for protective equipment so they can safely provide care and reduce the rate of infection in health settings.” 
  •  “Five key investment areas to boost nurses and midwives worldwide: 
1. Invest in more nurse-led and midwife-led services
2. Employ more specialist nurses
3. Make midwives and nurses the heart of primary health care, providing services and supervising community health workers 
4. Support nurses and midwives in delivering health promotion and disease prevention.
5. Invest in the leadership skills of nurses and midwives.”

Work Cited
Suggested Reading
Suneel Vatsyayan and Dr.Avdesh Sharma on Caregiver Stress Maan Ki Baat  https://youtu.be/ZuBx5545OK0
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

EMOTIONAL CPR (ECPR) TRAINING @NADA INDIA BY #CIRCLEOFHOPE

Nada India Foundation organised a training on emotional CPR that was conducted by  Lauren Spiro at the Shantiratan Foundation, Chhatarpur  on 14th & 16th March'20. The training was attended by 12 participants from various walks of life (Circle of Hope) while Ayaz is the Program Coordinator at Ashra Adhikar Abhiyan , Kushangi has a master's in Clinical Psychology and Pooja is a student of Geriatric Care and Nada Health Advocate. Upon being asked what he was expecting from the training, Amar, also a student of Geriatric Care at American India Foundation (Nada Circle of Hope), said, " CPR toh maine kiya tha, yeh eCPR kya hai yeh janne aaye hain" (I have practiced CPR , I'm here to learn what eCPR is all about).  eCPR is a public health education program designed to teach people to assist others through emotional crisis through three steps: C = connecting, P = emPowering, and R = revitalizing. eCPR recognizes that the experiences of trauma, emotional
2 comments
Read more

Youth Voices: Pooja felt that everyone uses eCPR in their daily lives, knowingly or unknowingly

Health Advocate, Pooja Choudhary, felt that everyone uses eCPR in their daily lives, knowingly or unknowingly. She also observed that generally we practice it with people we know. “jo humse close hote hain, unhi ke saath hum eCPR practice karte hain. Anjaan log jab apno se hi nahi baat kar pate toh humse kaise karenge (We practice it with people who are close to us. When a stranger can’t tell their plight to the people they know, how will they discuss it with us)”, noted Pooja.  Dr Fisher agreed that connecting is easier with people we know however eCPR can be practiced with strangers also. It’s like CPR. In his words, “It (eCPR) is a universal language of emotions which supersedes language and culture.” He substantiated this with the example of a baby. We and the baby don’t share a language; it cries and we try to soothe it. We don’t know why it is crying, it gives us clues, we try to address its needs but almost always it needs to be soothed and eventually we realise what it n
1 comment
Read more

Empower People Living with COVID19 by respecting their rights as patients and caregivers

Image source Enhance the quality of social bonding and social wellbeing  by connecting with people living with COVID19 and empower them with their rights as patients and caregivers   and create safe space for everyone....   The World Health Organization (WHO) has started using the phrase  "physical distancing" instead of "social distancing"  as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus from people to people. I think it was over due,  Young India Network for Good Health   welcomes this move as a step towards to bring back social wellbeing of People Living with COVID19 and their families suffering from social isolation. We underline the importance of a physical distance as  "absolutely essential" to respond to global pandemic "it does not mean that socially we have to disconnect from the people who are significant and part of day to day life. Image source   Since coronavirus is spread mainly through respiratory droplets, espec
1 comment
Read more