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Stories about nurses & related health issues are most often under-reported in traditional media. With NIGH’s mandate to increase public awareness about these concerns, this website seeks to improve our global understanding of the dynamics that decrease or improve the health of people worldwide.
Shown here on the left, Evelyn Shober, a Family Nurse Practitioner student from the Samuel Merritt College at the Sacramento Regional Nursing Center in Sacramento, California. She joined a two-week mission to local hospitals, orphanages and villages in and around Vientiane, the capitol of Laos. Featured during the 2010 International Year of the Nurse, this story is one of our examples of 21st Century Nightingales. Read more >>
A super, free, global library on healthcare
A global repository of lectures on public health and prevention, entitled "Supercourse ", designed for educators across the world, is now on-line. Produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center at the University of Pittsburgh, it has a vast network of over 55000 scientists in 174 countries, who share a free on-line library on healthcare, comprising of 3611 lectures in 26 languages.
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- Global Education Institute: empowering nurses to lead in healthcare
- Code of ethics to protect foreign nurses in the USA
- UN: Malaria rates are falling
- Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
- New Ways of Thinking and Delivering Health Care
- Nursing in China: "many challenges ahead"
- Beijing Olympics: nurses standby to provide best service
- Myanmar: nurses on the front-line of the relief effort
- UK nurses lobby government over rising costs of fuel
- Arab American Nursing Organization Founder Honoured
- Making the eHealth connection
- Education more important than immigration to solve nursing shortage in America
- Australia: calls for nursing to be at the centre of the health system
- Turkish Nursing Education Congress
- Princess Muna of Jordan highlights new health challenges
- Archbishop Tutu: "Health must be inclusive of spiritual well-being"
- World Health Assembly sets out bold new action
- Bill Moyers features the California Nursing Association
- Nurses week: RNAO -- getting politicians to see through nurses' eyes
Visitors at the Mapparium in the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the site to launch Dr. Jean Watson's Million Nurse Project—during the 2010 International Year of the Nurse—to radiate heart-centered Love, Caring and Compassion through individual and collective global meditations. Photo Courtesy of the Mary Baker Eddy Library.
