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.
10.3 Nursing Vision for Global Health
Nursing advances a vision of a good and healthy global society and sustainable environmental practices. Nurses are involved in activities that further societal and environmental health through policy development and implementation, program development and evaluation, political engagement, global health and nursing research, and health diplomacy. These activities address the political determinants of health; support health, broadly understood as encompassing both human and environmental health and their inter-relatedness; and address issues of climate change and planetary health. Nurses and nursing organizations work toward the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) and other global-based benchmarks as they affect health and well-being. The United Nations SDGs include:
The eradication of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the diseases they foster; a positive agenda toward the realization of health and well-being including the reduction of maternal and child morbidity and mortality; universal literacy and education; and universal gender equality. Nursing and nurses also work to bring about access to clean water, safe food and milk supplies, sanitation, affordable clean energy; healthy cities and communities; ecological protection through responsible consumption, production, and shared natural resources; climate-related advocacy; conservation of oceanic and terrestrial life, waters, and lands; peace, justice, human rights, and strong institutions; and global partnerships to further these goals.
In accordance with their knowledge, skills, interests, and commitments, individual nurses work toward the goals to which they are most committed and for which they are best equipped.