The Power of Nursing – Afaf Meleis

Through the Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery (GANM) I was able to see this video "The Power of Nursing" made in University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and i think it will be motivating for our followers, this is an inspiring video about the important work the nurses are doing in many different settings in the world as well as commendations to Organization who have been supportive of  the work nurses are doing to help patients around the world. watch and comment. In case if you are not able to view the, read the write up below.

There are 20 million nurses in the world. Most of the care that’s given anywhere in the world is given by nurses. Nursing is about taking care of a whole person and a whole family. They think about the individual within the context of their life, within the context of their village, within the context of their city, and they understand their behavior and responses related to health and illness within the context of what’s happening in the political system or the sociocultural system.

So you walk in a clinic in Liberia, for example, and you see the that the person in command there is the nurse. They are taking care of young adolescents who are pregnant and they are counseling a mother who just had a baby, and they are taking with a man who does not have a net for malaria. They understand the world through the eyes of the person who is suffering. And therefore, they are able to provide the congruent care, the appropriate healthcare, for them. Read more through GANM website

This video was made by Afaf Meleis, PhD, Dean Emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing