On May 12 every year, the world celebrates International Nurses’ Day the same day that Florence Nightingale, a British nurse who pioneered the profession of nursing and advocated and reformed hospital sanitation methods (Riddle, 2010), was born. This year, 2011, nurses all over the world commemorates the day with a theme: “Closing the Gap: Increasing Access and Equity”.
The theme for this year represents the commitment of all nurses to their profession and their role in achieving the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goal (MDG). The MDG basically aims to improve the health status of all peoples all over the world by 2015. Razia, 2011). The MDG’s concern on the health of the worldwide population that specifically relates to the nursing profession are, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, reduction of the incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (RCNA, n.d..)
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