Provision 10
Nursing, through organizations and associations, participates in the global nursing and health community to promote human and environmental health, well-being, and flourishing.
10.1 Global Nursing Community
Nursing champions universal health through support of nursing global engagement and the global nursing workforce. The human right to health and well-being is universal, thus the need for nursing is universal. The development and advancement of nursing knowledge, education and practice are global concerns.
Nursing supports the global community in fostering shared nursing values and disseminating knowledge, education, theory, practice, and standards. All nurses in all global communities are recognized, supported, and included in these efforts. Nursing leverages participation with global initiatives, including International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the nursing office and other offices at the World Health Organization (WHO), to represent the distinctive voice, values, perspectives, and knowledge of nurses and nursing to advance global health and promote public health. Nursing, as part of the global community, works to create and disseminate scientific and scholarly findings, share practice advances, collaborate on projects of shared interests and concern through research and scholarship, attend congresses, and where beneficial, engage in consultation and mutual exchange among educators, researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students. Nursing should work to address the root causes of non-voluntary (non-contractual, coerced) nurse migration that create global maldistribution of nurses and collaboratively develop courses of action to ameliorate nursing shortages in underserved areas.