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The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has marked the two year anniversary of the declaration by the World Health Organization of COVID-19 as a pandemic by publishing a report of its work on COVID in 2021, entitled The International Year of the Health and Care Worker and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Following ICN’s 2020 report, The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 report tracks ICN’s work month by month from January 2021 to March 2022. The report highlights several significant ICN publications, press releases and statements on the effect of the pandemic on nurses’ mental and physical health, including stress, burnout, traumatisation, as well as infections and deaths. It also highlights the impacts on the nursing workforce in terms of education, workload and the global nursing shortage.

ICN President Dr Pamela Cipriano said:

“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on all of society, but the health workforce has undoubtedly suffered the most. When we look at what nurses have endured, there is no doubt that many will be leaving the profession unless serious measures are enacted to retain the existing workforce and attract young people to take up the profession.

This report shows the many ways in which ICN has been publishing the research into the effects of the pandemic on the nursing workforce as well as the recommendations to address the threats to the profession including the need for investment.”

The new report also contains success stories from across the world, which show the ways in which ICN member national nursing associations have influenced their governments to improve nurses’ salaries and working conditions, education and training, and appoint a Chief Nursing Officer. It also contains testimonies which highlight the incredible lengths to which nurses will go to care for their patients.

In an Op-Ed published today in Health Policy Watch, ICN Chief Executive Officer Howard Catton said:

“Unless the global nursing workforce is brought up to full strength, even when the pandemic is finally over, grand plans about healthcare for all will be nothing more than pipe dreams.

Policymakers who do not have nurses sitting alongside them at the top table are flying blind: their policies will end up being short-sighted and incomplete. Because the solution to tackling intractable global health problems, such as the growth in non-communicable diseases, is right under our noses. Having nurses working in advanced roles, and services based on nurse-led models, are the keys to the brighter future we all deserve.

But nurses will only be able to fulfil their potential if all governments wake up to what they must do, and take action on the sustained measures necessary to bring about the massive growth in the nursing workforce that is needed right now.

The war in Ukraine is going to make this even more difficult, as governments look to increase their defence spending, rather than enhance their health budgets. But health and peace are inseparable.

And whenever I hear governments say they can’t afford to invest in their nurses? I say, they can’t afford not to.”

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国际护士会（ICN）为纪念世界卫生组织宣布COVID-19为大流行病两周年，发布了一份关于2021年COVID工作的报告，题为《国际保健和护理工作者年与COVID-19大流行病》。

继ICN的2020年报告《国际护士和助产士年与COVID-19大流行病》之后，2021年的报告逐月追踪ICN从2021年1月至2022年3月的工作。报告强调了ICN的几份重要出版物、新闻稿和声明，内容涉及该大流行病对护士身心健康的影响，包括压力、倦怠、心理创伤以及感染和死亡。它还强调了在教育、工作量和全球护理人员短缺方面对护理队伍的影响。

ICN主席Pamela Cipriano博士说。

"COVID-19大流行病对全社会产生了重大影响，但卫生工作者无疑受到了最大的伤害。当我们看到护士所承受的一切时，毫无疑问，许多人将会离开这个行业，除非制定严肃的措施来保留现有的劳动力并吸引年轻人加入这个行业。

这份报告显示了ICN通过多种方式发布了关于大流行病对护理人员的影响的研究报告，以及应对该职业所面临的威胁的建议，包括投资的需要"。

新报告还包含了来自世界各地的成功案例，显示了ICN成员国家的护理协会如何影响其政府改善护士的工资和工作条件、教育和培训，以及任命首席护理官。它还包含了一些证词，突出了护士为照顾病人所做的不可思议的努力。

ICN首席执行官霍华德-卡顿在今天发表在《卫生政策观察》上的一篇专栏文章中说。

"除非全球护士队伍达到满员，否则即使大流行病最终结束，关于全民保健的宏伟计划也不过是空想而已。

没有护士和他们一起坐在最高层的决策者是盲目的：他们的政策最终将是短视的和不完整的。因为解决难以解决的全球健康问题，如非传染性疾病的增长，就在我们的眼皮底下。让护士担任高级职务，并在护士领导的模式基础上提供服务，是实现我们所有人应得的更美好未来的关键。

但是，只有当所有政府都意识到他们必须做什么，并采取必要的持续措施来实现现在所需要的护理队伍的大规模增长时，护士才能够发挥其潜力。

乌克兰的战争将使这一工作更加困难，因为各国政府希望增加其国防开支，而不是加强其卫生预算。但是，健康与和平是密不可分的。

每当我听到政府说他们负担不起对护士的投资？我说，他们不能不投资"。

原文链接：

https://www.icn.ch/news/report-highlights-critical-work-international-council-nurses-safeguard-nurses-and-advocate

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