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Registered Nurse LaToya Marks treats a COVID-19 positive patient at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Nurses Champion Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

by Zeena Nackerdien

With expertise in patient care, nurses are well positioned to combat antimicrobial resistance if given the correct tools

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A nurse, seen in profile with a long row of American flags behind her, watches an ambulance driving away outside of Elmhurst Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Queens, New York, on April 20, 2020.

No Fall Zone

by Sonya Stokes, Craig Spencer

This winter, there is zero room for error in emergency medicine

A nurse invites people to the booths to receive AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Belgrade, Serbia, March 25, 2021
Governance

Nurses Will Lead Health-Care Teams Out of the Pandemic

by Laura Hoemeke, Melissa T. Ojemeni, Comrade Olubunmi Lawal-Aiyedun, Natalie Sheneman

Interprofessional collaboration will play an important role in mitigating the global health workforce crisis

Physician Alister Martin received one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from RN Jennifer Lisciotti at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 16, 2020.
Governance

Nursing Doubts About the Vaccine

by Susan Goodwin

Approximately two-thirds of U.S. nurses are hesitant or unwilling to accept the new coronavirus vaccines

They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Governance

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux, Mingqi Song

The U.S. failure to collect social and community data hampers efforts to control COVID-19 and to address health inequity

A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Gender

Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

by Marleen Vellekoop, Meshack Acholla, Julia Hanne

Africa’s unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women’s health in danger

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa gives a speech at the Heroes' Day Commemoration in Harare, Zimbabwe, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on August 10, 2020. GETTY IMAGES/Wanda/Xinhua
Poverty

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe

by Chido Dziva Chikwari

The country is facing an unprecedented public health catastrophe—and action is required to prevent more needless deaths

Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City's Bronx borough hold a protest demanding N95 masks and other critical personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 2, 2020. The photo shows a number of nurses lined up holding placards. One of them plays off the term PPE and spells out "Please Protect Everyone." REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid
Governance

All Focus Must Turn to Health Care Workers Now

by Amanda McClelland

To save ourselves we need to protect the people who risk everything and sacrifice their own safety to save everyone else

A nurse takes a photograph during a rally in front of the Government House in Bangkok October 16, 2012. Nurses attending the rally demanded better working conditions and full-time jobs, asking the government to improve job security by offering permanent contracts. The nurse stands in her white outfit against a sea of brightly colored umbrellas.
Trade

Southeast Asia’s Big Export to the World: Health Professionals

by Swee Kheng Khor

What long-term effect will the brain drain have on SE Asia, on top of a current shortfall of 700,000 doctors and nurses?