SNOMED International salutes the State of the World’s Nursing 2025, a recently released report that provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the global nursing workforce.
Framed in the context of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an “action plan for people, the planet and prosperity,” the nursing report confirms that the 12 policy priorities of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global strategic directions for nursing and midwifery 2025 remain highly relevant for the period 2026-2030. It also identifies five emerging policy priorities in the areas of advanced practice nursing, gender equality, digital health and technology, the climate agenda, and nurses in situations of war and conflict.
According to the report, nurses – the largest occupational group in the healthcare sector with about 28 million practitioners worldwide – “must be prepared and fully supported to competently utilize digital technologies across areas of professional practice from education to practice, research and management."
SNOMED International has long supported this goal, initially informally, and then more formally beginning in 2020, when SNOMED International and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) announced an agreement to work together to integrate the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) into SNOMED CT in a systematic way. The formal collaboration followed ICN’s review of its role in health informatics globally, enabling them to develop a strategy for supporting nursing globally.
“The inclusion of nursing content in SNOMED CT greatly augments its value and utility,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “It also supports the level of granularity nursing needs while connecting the profession to the broader healthcare community.”
Read the release here.
