STAKEHOLDERS ACROSS the education, finance and health sectors have issued a collective call to recognise nurses as critical to national productivity and economic growth, urging stronger investment in their resilience, care and professional support.
The calls came against the backdrop of the Nurses Association of Jamaica’s (NAJ) 55th Island Conference, held recently at the Moon Palace Hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann, under the theme Our Nurses, Our Future: Caring for Nurses Strengthens Economies.
The stakeholders noted that without a thriving nursing workforce, economic stability and national development are at risk.
“Your work directly enables the productivity [of our nation],” said Delroy Williams, principal of Iona High and keynote speaker for the conference. ”A healthy population is a productive population. You [nurses] are the frontline soldiers in this battle. When you are empowered, healthy and supported, the entire country benefits.”
