Jun 28, 2012
According to the ICN, there were
approximately 200 nurses working for the WHO in 1968; today that
figure has dropped to eight. Further, the position of Chief
Scientist, Nursing and Midwifery, a directorate position, has not
been replaced. AJN’s editor in chief Shawn Kennedy and
clinical managing editor Karen Roush discuss the ramifications of
the diminished nursing presence at the WHO with Benton and how ICN
is putting pressure on the WHO to reinstate a nursing
presence.