PIH: Nurses Make World Health Care Go Round

Partners INTERNATIONAL NURSES WEEK • MAY 6 - 12 In Health Show your support for global nursing: pih.org/SupportNurses NURSES ARE THE KEY PROVIDERS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NURSES MAKE WORLD GO ROUND HEALTH CARE COMPRISING 60-80 DELIVERING % OF ALL HEALTH- 90" CARE SERVICES OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM WORKFORCE THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL NURSES: YET 90% OF THE MORE THAN GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE IS 1/3 CARRIED BY THE REST OF THE WORLD. OF THE WORLD'S HEALTH WORKERS LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA (WHO, 2006). PIH IS HELPING NURSES SUCCEED: AT IN RWANDA PARTNERS IN HEALTH AT MIREBALAIS NATIONAL TEACHING PIH trains nurses AND HAITI HOSPITAL IN HAITI IN LESOTHO IN RWANDA SITES, NURSES the Clinical Nurse Mentoring Program is improving care for children under five, MAKE UP in ultrasound nurses are new management structure places the chief nurse on par with the director of imaging, helping becoming to improve predictability of difficult births. 85.5% oncology educators and pregnant women, and patients with acute illness. are delivering chemotherapy for the first time. OF CLINICAL STAFF medicine. pih.org/SupportNurses