Posts Tagged ‘World Health Organziation’
Nurses: Honesty and Ethics
From the Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professional Poll, 2019, nurses are rated the highest in honesty and ethics. Americans were asked to rate the honesty and ethics of a wide range of professionals using the scale “very high, high, average, low or very low” and 85% rated nurses as “very high or high.”…
Read MoreFacts on Patient Safety
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a “Patient Safety Fact File” and noted that patient safety is a serious worldwide concern and it is estimated that “the risk of death occurring due to preventable medical accident, while receiving health care, is estimated to be 1 in 300” (WHO, 2019). The report includes ten facts: (WHO,…
Read More2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife!
The executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO), has designated 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”, this is in honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Florence was born May 12, 1820, and died August 13, 1910, and was the foundational philosopher of modern nursing, whose story is familiar to every nurse[1].…
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