Nurses have ‘professional responsibility’ to be vaccinated: Int’l Council of Nurses.
The ICN’s directors’ board spoke about COVID-19 vaccinations, highlighting nurses’ professional responsibility and “lamentable inequality” of access to vaccines.
The Geneva-based ICN is a federation of more than 130 national nurses’ associations, representing more than 27 million nurses worldwide.
The council calls for the protection of nurses from harm.
“Nurses have consistently been voted the most trusted professionals on the planet, and they have a vital role in providing up-to-date, evidence-based healthcare advice to their patients and the communities they serve,” said Pamela Cipriano, ICN President.
“Nurses are great role models, and the positive advice they give about COVID-19 vaccines can only be effective when they themselves take advantage of the protections the vaccines provide.”
ICN affirmed its belief in the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and its conviction that nurses must enhance public trust in vaccines and encourage people to have them.
Some countries that have imposed vaccine mandates on health workers have run into resistance to the measure.
