Possible Side Effects
We know that global trends are changing clinical and preventive health care, research and development, workforce development and education. I encourage those of us in… Read More »Possible Side Effects
We know that global trends are changing clinical and preventive health care, research and development, workforce development and education. I encourage those of us in… Read More »Possible Side Effects
Anyone who was around in the 1950s remembers how the Cold War tension between the United States and then-Soviet Union seeped into everyday life. There… Read More »Our Next New Frontier
We’re facing a global shortage of 17.4 million qualified health care workers—2.6 million doctors and more than 9 million nurses—according to the World Health Organization… Read More »Health Help Wanted
The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago introduced Americans to hamburgers, the Ferris wheel—and the idea of higher education for nurses. Nurses hosted their first global… Read More »Inspiring ‘What Is Best in Nursing’
By Zeina Khouri-Stevens I was pleased when my colleague Karen Haller approached me to tag-team on a pair of posts about how Johns Hopkins Medicine… Read More »Advancing Nursing in Saudi Arabia: A Case Study
Countries worldwide are facing unprecedented challenges related to health and health care. This is made worse by a global shortage of 17.4 million qualified health… Read More »Why I Can’t Say Enough About the Importance of Nursing
Health care professionals have always been attracted to developed countries in search of better career and educational opportunities, political stability, and greater personal freedom, among… Read More »Brain Drain or Gain?
My colleague John Ulatowski wrote about the inherent risk of homogenization as we share ideas about health and the delivery of health care around the world.… Read More »Putting Nurses First
We agree on the benefits of health care globalization: more uniform standards of patient safety, growth of telemedicine, greater access to lifesaving treatments, immediate information… Read More »Hazards of Homogeneity
We know what globalization means. Boundaries between countries disappear, giving way to single global markets for labor, manufacturing, finance and service. Money, goods, people, ideas… Read More »The Future of Health Care Globalization