Nursing and allied health personnel are a vital resource for attaining health and development targets. They form the backbone of health systems around the globe and provide a platform for efforts to tackle the diseases that cause poverty and ill-health.
The work on nursing and midwifery in the Region is directed towards:
improving basic nursing and allied health education and establishing specialty nursing programmes including preparation for the advanced practice role;
ensuring development and retention of the nursing and midwifery workforce;
providing a regulatory framework for nursing, midwifery and allied health education, and practice;
expanding continuing education activities;
strengthening nurses’ involvement in policy-making;
building management and leadership capacity of nurses, midwives, and allied health personnel;
institutionalizing quality improvement programmes in nursing and midwifery to ensure provision of safe and effective nursing and midwifery services;
developing nursing research programs and advocating evidence-based nursing practice;
infection prevention and control.
