World celebrates Nurses day today

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ISLAMABAD: International Nurses Day (IND) is being celebrated on Tuesday (today) , May 12 throughout the world to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Florence Nightingale and to mark the nurses contributions towards people’s health.

The theme of 2015 is titled  “Nurses: A Force for Change: Care Effective, Cost Effective”.

Nursing is the largest health care profession in the world and nurses are the key of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Nurses are well trained and educated for maintaining the health and wellness of the patients through all the aspects like psychosocially, socially and etc.

Nurses have deep practical knowledge of delivering best health care services. Nurses associations play an important role in making nurses well informed, advised, encouraged and supported to deliver better work.

 Nurses are the fast and first point of contacting for health services. Nurses are innovatively practiced to provide free health checkup to the industries indicating their willingness of improving the health of staffs, to meet all the local needs, to improve the physical, mental and well-being of the patients and etc.