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Nursing in Europe:

a Resource for a Better Health.

OMS

What is the most important resource for health that a European country has today? Countries would give different answers to this question, but all of them would put the work of nurses very high on the list. The sheer number of the profession is close to 5 million in the 50 countries of the WHO European Region. Nurses are not a homogeneous group, but taken together they comprise a formidable workforce that provides some of the most essential services to keep people healthy, to take care of the ill and the injured, and to nurse the frail and elderly. In many, if not most, European countries, however, these health professionals unfortunately do not get the recognition they deserve, or the working facilities they need to carry out their unique function in our health care systems.

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