Nurse launches “Masks of Good” project to support frontline workers

Karina, a nurse working for the Advanced Support Unit of the mobile emergency care service in São Paolo has launched the “Máscaras do bem”...

Learning is moving from the known to the unknown

In this blog, Henry Murage Wambui, student representative of the Clinical Nursing Society, Kenya, talks about his experience of the “Mentor a Nurse” initiative. Why...

São Paulo– reaching out to improve men’s health

Community health workers and nurses in São Paulo have been providing healthcare education in local bars for the last five years. Set up in 2013,...

Supporting Community Nursing in Liberia

This case study was written by Laura Jean Ridge, Board President of Nursing For All. Nursing for All Nursing for All (NFA) is a small, nonprofit...

Home care for low income seniors in the USA

Like other countries, the USA has a growing problem of chronic diseases associated with ageing but does not yet have a system to effectively...

Nurses are fundamental for quality and success

Narayana Health is one of the great success stories of Indian health care. It operates a chain of hospitals, heart centres and primary care...

Tackling violence against women and children in Jamaica

A new project in Jamaica, ‘Nurses! Echoing the Silent Cry of Women and Children to End Violence in Jamaica’, highlights the ongoing challenges to...

Returning to nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic

This blog originally appeared on the SCI Foundation website. Caroline Pensotti is a nurse from Wiltshire working for SCI Foundation, an organisation that supports sub-Saharan countries...

Training to be a nurse, preparing to make a difference

Roisin O'Connell is a representative of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. She is a student nurse, preparing to graduate and become a staff-nurse...

Senior nurses in Malawi lead initiative to support families dealing with Sickle Cell Disease...

In 2017 in Northern Malawi, Senior Matron Chikondi Chimbatata from Mzuzu Central Hospital, and her colleagues from the Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN), Miriam...

One Family Health Rwanda

One Family Health (OFH) is a very exciting innovation where the Government and OFH, a private organisation, have partnered in Rwanda to create a nurse-led network, supporting nurses to...

Transforming nursing and midwifery in Uganda

In Uganda, the Ministry of Health is working with a wide range of stakeholders to transform the country’s nursing and midwifery professions in a...