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Nursing science and health policy – opportunities in the year of the nurse and the midwife
Author(s) -
Mitchell Pamela H.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1111/inr.12577
Subject(s) - nursing , medicine , psychology
The 2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife is an important opportunity to marry nursing science and health policy globally. Nurses and midwives are demonstrating strong intent towards evidence‐based practice but often feel they lack the skills to implement it. Examples are provided of ways in which general and advanced practice nurses have succeeded in bringing evidence into practice and then into local and global policy.