International Council of Nurses, Geneva, Switzerland.
Int Nurs Rev. 2021 Sep;68(3):267-269. doi: 10.1111/inr.12702.
The International Council of Nurses is in a unique position to represent nurses at the World Health Organization, and its task has never been more urgent than this year. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the death rates of nurses and other health care workers are truly shocking, with around 115 000 deaths. However, many countries do not collect statistics on health and care workers' deaths and infections from COVID-19, so the full extent of this awful situation is not known. At this year's World Health Assembly, the body that sets the World Health Organization's agenda for the following year, the International Council of Nurses' 50-strong delegation voiced the concerns of nurses and ensured that the views and advice of nurses were heard by the World Health Organization's 194 member states' delegates. Here, the International Council of Nurses' Chief Executive Officer Howard Catton describes how the Council is influencing health and care policy worldwide. He urges nurses everywhere to hold their politicians to account.
国际护士理事会在代表护士在世界卫生组织发声方面具有独特的地位，而其任务从未像今年这般紧迫。在全球 COVID-19 大流行中，护士和其他医护人员的死亡率令人震惊，约有 115000 人死亡。然而，许多国家并未对卫生和医护人员因 COVID-19 而死亡和感染的情况进行统计，因此，我们并不了解这一可怕情况的全貌。在今年的世界卫生大会上，设定世界卫生组织次年议程的机构，国际护士理事会的 50 人代表团表达了护士们的关切，并确保世界卫生组织 194 个成员国代表听取了护士们的意见和建议。在这里，国际护士理事会首席执行官霍华德·卡顿描述了该理事会如何在全球范围内影响卫生和护理政策。他敦促各地的护士们让他们的政客们承担责任。
