University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs. 2012 Nov-Dec;37(6):360-4; quiz p.365-6. doi: 10.1097/NMC.0b013e31825df7e7.
More than a a decade ago nurse experts identified information critical for their practice in the 21st century, initiated by the increasing globalization of healthcare and nursing education. Much has happened since then. We know more about the healthcare needs of developing and developed countries, although solutions remain problematic. Although nurses continue to migrate, exaggerating developing country health issues, they are plagued by the variability in how they are educated. For example, some countries prepare nurses in high school, while in other countries nurses are educated in institutions of higher education. Recognizing this variability, nurse leaders have undertaken several efforts to address this variability. The purpose of this article is to highlight several issues associated with global education in general, describe current efforts in nursing and midwifery to strengthen nursing education, and discuss why these efforts are relevant to maternal-child nurses. This information is particularly relevant when one considers the contributions appropriately educated nurses and midwives can make as achieving select United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
十多年前，护理专家确定了 21 世纪护理实践所需的关键信息，这是由医疗保健和护理教育的全球化日益加剧所引发的。自那时以来，情况发生了很大变化。我们对发展中国家和发达国家的医疗保健需求有了更多的了解，尽管解决方案仍然存在问题。尽管护士继续迁移，夸大了发展中国家的卫生问题，但他们受到教育方式差异的困扰。例如，一些国家在高中培养护士，而在其他国家，护士则在高等教育机构接受教育。认识到这种差异，护理领导者已经做出了几项努力来解决这种差异。本文的目的是强调与全球教育相关的几个问题，描述护理和助产学领域目前为加强护理教育所做的努力，并讨论为什么这些努力与母婴护士有关。当考虑到受过适当教育的护士和助产士在实现联合国千年发展目标方面的贡献时，这些信息尤其相关。
