Welcome to the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health!
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Our vision is to renew the flame of Florence Nightingale’s legacy by inspiring nurses — including student nurses — and concerned citizens to tell their stories — as global citizens advocating for a healthy world!
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“We — the nurses and concerned citizens of the global community —
hereby dedicate ourselves to achieve a healthy world...
hereby dedicate ourselves to achieve a healthy world...
from NIGH's founding credo — our Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World >>> .
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Traducteur & Narrateur: Marisha Wojciechowska-Shibuya • Crédit images >>>
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Our cornerstone is the Nightingale Declaration for a Healthy World created — as a shared credo — to inspire, engage and empower nurses and concerned citizens — worldwide. Modeled after the ‘Preamble’ to the United Nations founding Charter with the words, “We the peoples of the United Nations...” this Declaration is the foundational premise of all of NIGH’s activities. Now featured in eleven languages — including French — with many more to come, including Indigenous versions — the Nightingale Declaration clarifies and commits to our common goals and mutual purposes — to work together to call for, share ideas and build a better — more inclusive — world for everyone.
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We are welcoming related stories — about achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to post on 'Our Stories.' |
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Keenly relevant to our times --
yet we have yet to share what we know.... More than ever before, we are all impacted by the health of everyone else around the world. Yet, most critical global health issues are still under-reported, under-valued and poorly understood. Although nurses and many others have important knowledge, experience and wisdom, we have yet to effectively share what we know with the general public — with the global community.
Nurses and midwives are the world’s largest healthcare workforce — 80% of healthcare delivery globally. The International Council of Nurses — a federation of national nursing associations from 132 out of 193 UN Member States — counts the numbers of nurses as |
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at least 27 million strong. Nurses are consistently named the most trusted of professionals.
What better voices to collectively call for what needs to happen --
for the sake of humanity's health at local, regional and global levels?
for the sake of humanity's health at local, regional and global levels?
We can focus our collective callings — for the sake of 21st century health care and for related social, ecological and human rights issues. While we continue the practices we have already established — we can also be innovative and create new practice arenas. We can model our global advocacy — the fulfillment and satisfaction of being nurses — inspired to continue bringing health and healing to our world.
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Nightingale passed this vision on to us — to remember who we are, what we can do, who we care for and why — and then — to share her vision, as she did, with our world.
If you would like to explore how you can collaborate with us in your region, you are always welcome to contact us. |
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Image Credits: Nurse from Wikimedia Commons / Nightingale's face from NIGH's archives