The caring initiative needs to be streamlined at all levels of health care. Providing care in a variety of settings in addition to hospitals and health centres, such as schools, workplaces, rural communities, homes, and refugee camps, nurses are instrumental in the delivery of health services. It is clear that nurses are the backbone of most health care teams, especially the primary health care team. This is just one of many examples of strong initiatives made by nurses. Better health for all and securing equitable health services must guide all change.
Nurses certainly can enrich our knowledge about the effectiveness of interventions and health.
Contributing to the evidence base on the role of nurses in community mobilization for integrated health development. Playing a pivotal role in the Roll Back Malaria and Stop TB initiatives and in safe pregnancy programmes. As a driving force in the final stretch of polio eradication just as nurses have always had a major role in immunization programmes worldwide. Taking the lead on the tobacco initiatives, especially as nurses are active in health education and promoting healthy life styles. Bearing in mind that a large proportion of nurses are smokers, they themselves are an important target group.