From subordination to complementarity?

Abstract

In 2020, two series of events highlighted the centrality of the role of nurses in the delivery of health services; one was planned, the other not. First, there is the designation by the World Health Assembly of 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and the publication by World Health Organization (WHO), with the support of the International Council of Nurses and of the Nursing Now campaign, of the State of the World's Nursing 2020 (SOWN) (1). Then came the unexpected one, the Covid-19 pandemic. Only time will tell the impact of those two events, but we can already identify implications for the education and practice of nurses, the theme of this issue of the Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE). The SOWN is the first global portrait of the nursing profession. It documents and discusses the availability and distribution of nurses worldwide, their roles, their working conditions and the quality of their education.

Nursing Now Brazil Campaign: alignments with global evidence for the development of national nursing

“…Such action is supported by records of international agencies that recommend mobilization that generates change. In this sense, the protagonism of Nursing faculties should be valued, which house granaries for the production of scientific evidence to be used, in arguments capable of convincing political leaders to invest in Nursing education and in the development of the profession (17) .…”

Alignment and Contribution of Nursing Doctoral Programs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

“…Nursing scientific knowledge has the potential to improve health outcomes and advance in care technology innovation, thus, research results need to be increasingly adopted in policies and practice. Research is important to inform policy decisions, and, in that respect, nursing schools and faculties play a critical role in producing the evidence that can convince political decision-makers to invest in nursing education and in the development of the profession [24].…”

Factors associated with death among postpartum women with COVID-19: a Brazilian population-based study

“…However, the occurrence of this disease in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle has resulted in adverse outcomes not only in low-income countries, with restricted resources and precarious health systems, but also in developed and well-structured countries with traditionally low maternal mortality rates ( 2 ) . Hence, the pandemic has evidenced an important crisis in the health field in different contexts while revealing the relevance of health workers in general, though of nurses in particular; the competencies of nurses are essential at all levels of healthcare services ( 3 ) .…”