Strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery services (2011-2015)

Overview

Complementing and building on the 2002–2008 SDNM, it seeks to provide policy makers, practitioners and other stakeholders at every level with a flexible framework for broad-based, collaborative action to enhance the capacity of nurses and midwives to contribute to:

• universal coverage
• people-centred health care
• policies affecting their practice and working conditions, and the
• scaling up of national health systems to meet global goals and targets