Mind Map Gallery WHO State of the World's Nursing Report 2020
The World Health Organization's State of the World's Nursing Report 2020 provides a comprehensive overview of the global nursing workforce, highlighting key issues, challenges, and opportunities in the field of nursing. This mind map aims to explore the various aspects of the report, including the current state of nursing, the impact of nursing on global health, and the recommendations for strengthening the nursing workforce worldwide. By visualizing the key findings and insights from the report, this mind map will offer a holistic understanding of the state of nursing and its significance in the healthcare landscape.
Edited at 2021-08-27 23:36:43WHO State of the World's Nursing Report 2020: Ten Key Actions - Future Directions for Nursing Workforce Policy
1. Combat nurse shortage in affected countries by increase funding to educate and employ at least 5.9 million additional nurses.
Nursing Education Challenges
Basic education levels of the general population
Nursing educational prerequisites
Program Location primarily in urban areas
Nursing education cost
Nursing program capacity
Numbers of qualified faculty
Clinical afffiliations
Available hospital beds per population
Gender issues
Social and economic undervaluing of nursing work
Recruitment from underrepresented populations
Employment Challenges
Economic capacity for job creations
Budget provided by public sector to the health workforce
2. Strenghten capacity for health workforce data collection, analysis and user.
Required Actions
Accelarate National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA)
Initiate Health Labour Market Analysis
3. Monitor and ethically manage nurse mobility and migration.
Factors affecting Nurse Migration
Availability of better jobs
Salary
Working conditions
Health infrastructure
Education opportunities
Destination country's family visa provisions
4. Build education and training programs focused on primary health care and universal health coverage.
Required Actions
Availability of clinical placement sites
Investment in nursing facility
Currical aligned national health priorities and emerging global issues
Accessibility of programs
Challenges
Work preference towards hospital and acute care settings
Chooses private sector over public facilities
5. Strengthen nursing workforce through nursing leadership and governance.
Required Actions
Establishing the Senior Nurse role in the governmanet for strengthening the national nursing workfiorce.
Development of Nursing Leadership Programs
10. Collaboration is key.
Key elements
Intersectoral dialogues
Strengthen capacity for effective public policy stewardshop
Strengthen the role of nursing in care teams
9. Modernize professional nursing regulation.
Specific Actions
Harmonize nursingg education and credentialing standards
Institute mutual recognition of nursing education anf professional credentials
Develop interoperable systems for quick verification of credentials
Facilitate regulatory frameworks
Scope of Practice
Initial competency assessments
Continuous professional development
8. Deliberately plan for gender-sensitive nursing workforce policies
Specific Actions
Implement an equitable and gender neutral system of renumeration
Public and,
Private sector
7. Coordinate actions in support of decent work.
Specific Actions
Fair and adequate renumeration
Prioritize adequate staffing levels
Enforce policies for occupational health and safety
Sexual harassment
Violence and discrimination
Challenges
Gender Issues
Risk of attacks
Excessive working hours
Unfair treatment of migrant nurses
6. Optimize the contributions of nursing practice.
Specific Actions
Nurses working in their full potentials
Expansion of effective Nurse-Led models of care.
Implementing workplace policies that impact nurse retention
Supporting nurse led models of care
Facilitating advanced practice roles
Leveraging opportunities arising from digital health technology
Taking into account the nursing workforce aging patterns
WHO State of the World's Nursing Report 2020: Ten Key Actions - Future Directions for Nursing Workforce Policy
1. Combat nurse shortage in affected countries by increase funding to educate and employ at least 5.9 million additional nurses.
Nursing Education Challenges
Program Location primarily in urban areas
Nursing education cost
Numbers of qualified faculty
Gender issues
Social and economic undervaluing of nursing work
Recruitment from underrepresented populations
Employment Challenges
Economic capacity for job creations
Budget provided by public sector to the health workforce
Findings
Nursing Workforce
One out of Six nurses are expected to retire in the next 10 years
17% of nurses globally are aged 55 years and above
4.7 million new nurses need to be employed over the next decade
Low - income countries' nurse density is 9.1 nurses per 10,000 population
High - income countries' nurse density is 107.7 nurses per 10,000 population
10% increase per years in number of graduates would be required
Education Pipeline
African , Eastern Mediterranean and South East Asia had the lowest density of nurses and graduation rates (7.7,7.1 and 12.2 per 100, 000 population)
Key Steps
Additional investments in nursing education US$10 per capita in low and middle income countries
Review and management of national wage bills
Accreditation of Institutions
Funding schemes for students willing to practice underserved areas upon graduation
Actively recruit from underrepresented communities
Incorporate rural training sites
Online distance education
Telehealth technology and simulation laboratories
Academic-clinical partnerships
2. Strengthen capacity for health workforce data collection, analysis and user.
Challenges
Insufficient data to comprehensively assess the complexity of migration patterns.
Insufficient data to conduct health labour market analyses
Lack of reports relating education, financing and health labour market flows
Key Steps
Accelarate National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA)
Initiate Health Labour Market Analysis
3. Monitor and ethically manage nurse mobility and migration.
Challenges
Availability of better jobs
Salary
Working conditions
Health infrastructure
Destination country's family visa provisions
Findings
In high-income countries, 15.2% of nurses were foreign born/trained.
81% of the world's nurses work in Americas, Europe and Western Pacific which accounts for 51% of the world's population.
Key Steps
Reinforcement of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.
Countries excessive losses of nursing workforce
Improve salaries
Pay equity
Ameliorate working conditions
Create professional development opportunities
Facilitate to work to their full scope of education and training
Countries overreliant on migrant nurses
Invest more on domestic production of nurses
4. Build education and training programs focused on primary health care and universal health coverage.
Challenges
Work preference towards hospital and acute care settings
Chooses private sector over public facilities
Gaps in the evidence of nursing contribution regarding climate change, complex emergenies, social determinants of health
Key Steps
Availability of clinical placement sites
Investment in nursing facilities
Curricula aligned national health priorities and emerging global issues
Creation of Advanced Practice roles
Leverage different research settings and methodologies
5. Strengthen nursing workforce through nursing leadership and governance.
Findings
115 of 76 responding countries, 71% have Government Chief Nursing /Midwifery Officer and 53% nursing leadership programme.
Presence of GCNO and nursing leadership programme are associated with stronger regulatory environment.
Key Steps
GCNO works in full partnership in making strategic decisions that impact health services
Development of more National Nursing Leadership Programs
10. Collaboration is key.
Key Steps
National governments with support from relevant domestic and international partners should:
Build Leadershiop, stewardship and managemennt capcity for Nursing Workforce
Optimize return of current investments in Nursing
Generate massive investment in the health workforce and in Nurses
9. Modernize professional nursing regulation.
Key Steps
Harmonize nursingg education and credentialing standards
Institute mutual recognition of nursing education anf professional credentials
Develop interoperable systems for quick verification of credentials
Facilitate regulatory frameworks
Scope of Practice
Initial competency assessments
Continuous professional development
8. Deliberately plan for gender-sensitive nursing workforce policies
Findings
Gender Pay Gap affecting women
90% of nursing worforce globally is made up of women
Only 25% of leadershoip positions in health globally are beld by women,.
Key Step
7. Coordinate actions in support of decent work.
Challenges
Gender Issues
Risk of attacks
Excessive working hours
Unfair treatment of migrant nurses
Findings
Low levels of working regulations in South East Asia, Western Pacific, African and South America.
Just 37% reported measures to prevent attacks on health workers, mostly SE Asia and Eastern Mediterranean
Avanced Nursing roles are more frequent in countries with lower density of medical doctors
Key Steps
Fair and adequate renumeration
Prioritize adequate staffing levels
Zero tolerance on sexual harassment
Zero tolerance on Violence and discrimination
6. Optimize the contributions of nursing practice.
Key Steps
Support nurses to work in their full potentials
Expansion of effective Nurse-Led models of care
Implement workplace policies that impact nurse retention
Facilitating advanced practice roles
Leveraging opportunities arising from digital health technology
Taking into account the nursing workforce aging patterns
Equitable and gender neutral system of renumeration