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Abstract

Nurses lead their colleagues and other professionals, they lead their teams, and they lead their patients to better health and more productive, healthier lifestyles. But nurses could have an even greater impact on the world's health if they were given more opportunities to work to their maximum capabilities, and greater influence in making decisions about health, social and economic policies. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 National Nursing Associations that represents the more than 20 million nurses worldwide. As ICN President, I am thrilled that the Nursing Now campaign, run in collaboration with ICN and the World Health Organization (WHO), is being adopted all around the world, including in South America. Nursing Now is a three-year campaign that is intended to improve health by raising the profile and status of nursing worldwide. It aims to empower nurses to help tackle 21st Century health challenges and maximise their contribution to achieving the goal of Universal Health Coverage. Nursing Now focuses on: • Ensuring that nurses and midwives have a more prominent voice in health policy-making. • Encouraging greater investment in the nursing workforce. • Recruiting more nurses into leadership positions. • Conducting research that helps determine where nurses can have the greatest impact. • Sharing best nursing practices. At ICN we have always taken leadership seriously: in fact, our first leadership workshop took place in 1993 in Caracas, Venezuela.

Construction of professional identity in nursing students: qualitative research from the historical-cultural perspective

“…Thus, incentivizing policies must be put in place to recover the historical and cultural value of the nurse's profession, strengthening social and political positioning as central aspects to the health and development of society (10) .…”

“…Furthermore, the importance of such research emerges when one considers the historical moment that the nursing profession is going through, materialized in the worldwide Nursing Now campaign, which seeks to value and empower professionals in the face of health sector challenges (10) . It is understood that discussing the construction of professional identity in nursing students still in training can contribute important elements to achieving the results of this campaign, particularly in relation to the goal of improving education and professional development (11) .…”

Leadership development of nursing students in a material and sterilization center

“…Actions for the recognition and appreciation of the exercise of leadership in the training process of nurse leaders (10) are the action object of the Nursing Now global campaign, under the motto "Where there is life, there is Nursing". The main objective of the campaign is to strengthen the education and development of the Nursing professionals aiming at leadership, in addition to improving the working conditions, sharing successful and innovative practices based on scientific evidence at the national and regional levels (11)(12) .…”

Strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery: potentialities and connections in the complex perspective

“…Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches the set of Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Services (5,(12)(13) and recently, in partnership with the International Nurses Council, the global program for the valorization of Nursing and Midwifery, Nursing Now (14) , with a focus on leadership for care practices that advance new and distinct health scenarios, among other purposes.…”