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. 2020 Mar;67(1):4-6.
doi: 10.1111/inr.12578.

Global challenges in health and health care for nurses and midwives everywhere

H Catton  1
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Global challenges in health and health care for nurses and midwives everywhere

H Catton. Int Nurs Rev. 2020 Mar.

Abstract

The next decade is likely to produce any number of global challenges that will affect health and health care, including pan-national infections such as the new coronavirus COVID-19 and others that will be related to global warming. Nurses will be required to react to these events, even though they will also be affected as ordinary citizens. The future resilience of healthcare services will depend on having sufficient numbers of nurses who are adequately resourced to face the coming challenges.

Keywords: COVID-19 recruitment and retention; Year of the Nurse and Midwife; climate change; coronavirus.

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