Nurses and Midwives as Global Partners to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To highlight ongoing and emergent roles of nurses and midwives in advancing the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 at the intersection of social and economic inequity, the climate crisis, interprofessional partnership building, and the rising status and visibility of the professions worldwide.

Design

Discussion paper.

Methods

Literature review.

Findings

Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will require all nurses and midwives to leverage their roles and responsibility as advocates, leaders, clinicians, scholars, and full partners with multidisciplinary actors and sectors across health systems.

Conclusions

Making measurable progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals is critical to human survival, as well as the s

SUBMITTER: Rosa WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8717679 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature