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Closing the gap: from evidence to action International nurses day – 12 May 2012

May 22, 2012

By: Department of Nursing

Every year, May 12th is marked as the international nurses day in conjunction with the birth date of Florence Nightingale and significance of this day to the nursing profession in immense. It gives the profession an assurance for their continued service and also a commitment to the continuous improvement in nursing care.

In this regard, each nurses day is celebrated with a theme of significance for continuous improvement. This year, the theme was “closing the gap: from evidence to action.” Of course, information and evidence has always been the major catalyst for positive change in any profession. Processes and standards based on evidence are more robust and ensure a consistent quality in the provided services.

The main gist of this year’s theme is to make nurse understand the role they play in the continuum of evidence to action. It is about asking good questions, improving skills, working closely with colleagues and also to use research and evidence for the benefit of patient care.

Similarly nurses are a source of good information and evidence. Nurses can provide important information about patients, their needs and systems required to provide a better and effective service. Nurses can also generate a lot of information on the operations of the health system and feed that information to research.

Hence, this year, the theme looks to shift the nursing environment to on that is conducive to evidence based practices while developing the standards of care provided through out the profession.

In the Maldives, there is a long way to go in developing a nursing care system that is in line with the theme of this nurses day. While recognising the achievements of the nursing system in the Maldives, nurses have to take a new initiative to build the culture of learning and using lessons from practice to improve care.


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