Operated by nurses and leading nursing internationally, ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all and sound health policies globally.

March 8: International Women’s Day: “Equality for women is progress for all”. ICN works closely with nurses and national nurse associations across the world to change the paradigm of women’s health from one of illness to one that empowers women to optimize their health. The ICN manual, A Life Course Approach to Improve the Health and Well-being of Women, addresses the missed opportunities that exist within our daily practice to enhance the health of women within the communities in which we work, and provides guidance on actions that can be taken to enhance the health of women. ICN also produces many fact sheets on women’s health that can be accessed here.
The Connecting Nurses initiative is part of the ICN eHealth programme. Connecting Nurses: Every raindrop deepens the ocean.
Press release: European study shows degree educated nurses reduce hospital death. Read more...
New partners join Fight the Fakes campaign. We are proud to welcome four new partners to our worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of fake medicines: the Dutch Malaria Foundation, the Global Pharma Heath Fund, Malaria Consortium and Roll Back Malaria! Fake medicines are a threat to public health and put patients at risk of drug resistance, prolonged illness, disability and even death. Combatting this danger to public health requires a comprehensive strategy of multi-stakeholder collaboration at local and global levels. More information can be found here or on the Fight the Fakes website.

ICN’s International Nurses Day toolkit and poster are now available on-line in English, French and Spanish.
Press release: Upcoming health professions regulation conference calls for urgent action from health professionals. Read more...

FOCUS ON AN ICN MEMBER

The Tonga National Professional Standards for Registered Nurses was launched in December 2013 to serve as guidelines for nursing services in the Kingdom. The five cornerstones of the standards are:

To demonstrate excellence for the people during management of nursing care;
Collaboration and teamwork;
Legal, ethical and professional attitudes and behaviour;
Leadership management, quality improvement and personal development;
Resource management.

FOCUS ON AN ICN PROJECT

The TB/MDR-TB project works through the ICN’s member national nurses associations to strengthen nursing capacity on the ground in countries with high and/or rising prevalence and thus enable the progress of all efforts to stem TB. The main focus is on training nurses in TB/MDR-TB detection, prevention, care and treatment. As well the Project focuses on developing a critical mass of nurse trainers in high burden countries about all aspects of TB and MDR-TB through ‘training of trainer’ (TOT) courses.