OUR MISSION, STRATEGIC INTENT, CORE VALUES AND PRIORITIES
Our Mission
To represent nursing worldwide, advancing the profession and influencing health policy.
International Council of Nurses’s Strategic Intent is to enhance the health of individuals, populations, and societies by:
championing the contribution and image of nurses worldwide
advocating for nurses at all levels
advancing the nursing profession
influencing health, social, economic and education policy.
International Council of Nurses’s Core Values
International Council of Nurses is committed to:
Visionary Leadership:
Advancing and sustaining the nursing profession and its contribution to peoples’ health and public policy.
Innovativeness:
Being transformational, progressive, evidence orientated and solution focused.
Solidarity:
Working to place nurses and nursing as key contributors and essential partners in formulating and implementing public policy, systems design and services delivery.
Accountability:
Guaranteeing open, inclusive, transparent and informed decision-making and reporting.
Social Justice:
Achieving equity and equality for society and the profession.
International Council of Nurses’s Priorities are clustered in four key interconnected themes:
Global voice - To bring solidarity and cooperation across the profession in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Strategic leadership - To provide strategic leadership to empower nurses and nursing organisations to advance nursing worldwide through coherent, efficient, effective and judicious advocacy by and for nurses, nursing and health.
Policy impact - To influence the design and implementation of policy in health and in other related areas to achieve better health outcomes.
Diversification - To identify, secure and diversify business and revenue generating opportunities to attain International Council of Nurses goals.
The International Council of Nurses Code for Nurses is the foundation for ethical nursing practice throughout the world. International Council of Nursesstandards, guidelines and policies for nursing practice, education, management, research and socio-economic welfare are accepted globally as the basis of nursing policy.
International Council of Nursesadvances nursing, nurses and health through its policies, partnerships, advocacy, leadership development, networks, congresses, special projects, and by its work in the arenas of professional practice, regulation and socio-economic welfare.
International Council of Nurses Core business
Supporting NNAs strengthening across the three pillars;
Maintain best practices for responsible governance;
Accountable financial management and income generation;
Maintain ongoing relationships with internal and external organizations;
Provide ongoing opportunities for global exchange;
Evaluate and review current models, policies, processes and guidance so as to strengthen and enhance inclusiveness;
Identify and disseminate and/or produce and maintain evidenced based up-to-date publications across all areas of work;
Promote the contribution of nursing through enhancement of ICNP and the development and implementation of information and communications technologies and other innovations;
Develop, maintain and promote up-to-date products such as International Council of Nurses position statements, fact sheets, scans, website, etc.
International Council of Nurses’s Three Pillars:
ICN is particularly active in:
Professional Nursing Practice
eHealth
Leadership Development
Ethics and Human Rights
Communicable Diseases
Noncommunicable Diseases
Primary Health Care
Immunisation/Vaccines
Mental Health
Nursing Regulation
Regulation and Credentialing
Education
Counterfeit medicines
Women’s and Children’s Health
Socio-economic Welfare for Nurses
Occupational health and safety
Human resources planning and policy
Remuneration
Career development
International trade in professional services
Ageing