Jurnal internasional Afrika vol.11 issue 3 2021
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Facilitating the development of emergency nursing in Africa: Operational challenges and successes

Jurnal internasional Afrika vol.11 issue 3 2021
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Facilitating the development of emergency nursing in Africa: Operational challenges and successes

Emergency nursing
Africa
Professional development

The World Health Assembly declared 2020 as the ‘Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’ in recognition of the
critical contribution of both professions to global health. Nurses globally are having to do more with less and in
the already resource deficient African context, significant adaptation and leadership is required in the way

emergency nurses work if they are to be effective in reducing mortality and morbidity within emergency pop-
ulations. In 2011, an emergency nursing group, representing the largest group of nurses in Africa, swiftly

engaged with this process by publishing the document ‘Developing a framework for emergency nursing practice
in Africa’ (2012). From this document a strategic plan was devised within a tight timeframe, to operationalise the
quest for enhanced emergency nursing in Africa. The purpose of this paper is to describe this development of
emergency nursing in Africa and to explain the operational challenges and successes, as well as the lessons learnt
in order to assist with future planning.

Petra Brysiewicz , Tricia Scott , Emmanuel Acheampong , Ivy Muya

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2021.03.013

31 March 2021

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