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Developing robust and resilient patient partnerships with health professionals to promote patient-centred, compassionate and
humanised healthcare
Howard Catton, ICN CEO
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ICN’s role is to:
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ICN works closely with the WHO:
WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus meeting with ICN President Dr Pamela Cipriano and ICN CEO Howard Catton during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Purpose of the code
Nurses primary responsibility is to people requiring nursing care and services.
Where nurses face a “dual loyalty” – a conflict between their professional duties and fulfilling obligations to their employer or other authority – their primary responsibility is to those who require care. This includes taking action such as whistle blowing to safeguard human rights.
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Recover to Rebuild: investing in the nursing workforce for health system effectiveness.
Examines 100-plus studies, and analyses official data from multiple sources.
Impact of the pandemic continues and is worsening.
Health demand is increasing and nurse supply gap is widening.
This is a GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY.
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Impacts of all of this on patients and the profession:
Organisational and systems failure to protect and prevent harm to nurses and NOT an individual nurses’ lack of personal resilience
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Why nurse staffing matters
PATIENT SAFETY
>Lower mortality rates
> Lower hospital-acquired infection rates�>Fewer falls
> Lower failure to rescue rates & missed care
>Fewer medicine errors
>Better patient experience
NURSE SAFETY
> Lower stress levels
> Lower illness rates
> Lower absence rates
> Better morale
>Improved retention rates
>Lower burnout rates
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Health and care workforce in Europe:
time to act (2022) WHO European Region
Life expectancy and health workforce density, 2020
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Value, protect, respect and invest in our nurses for a sustainable future for nursing and health care
ICN’s Charter for Change will present 10 policy actions that governments and employers must take to create and sustain health care systems that are safe, affordable, accessible, and responsive and shift nurses from being invisible to invaluable.
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2. Ensure safe and healthy working conditions and respect nurses’ rights
3. Recruit and retain nurses by ensuring fair and decent pay and positive practice environments
4. Develop, implement and finance national nursing workforce plans
5. Invest in high-quality, accredited nursing education programmes
6. Enable nurses to work to their full scope of nursing practice
7. Recognize and value nurses’ skills, knowledge, attributes and expertise
8. Engage national nursing associations as professional partners
9. Protect vulnerable populations, uphold and respect human rights, gender equity and social justice
10. Appoint nurse leaders to executive positions
Charter for Change
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Produced for ICN by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, the films and articles in Caring with Courage reveal the power of care and dedication in the inspiring work of nurses.
www.bbc.com/storyworks/specials/caring-with-courage/
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Thank you
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