MESSAGE FROM THE EDITIOR-IN-CHIEF

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Today, we must remember the thousands of nurses and other healthcare professionals who died because of COVID-19. We also take this opportunity to remind the world of the many contributions nurses have made and the many sacrifices they continue to make every day to ensure that people have access to the health care they require, even in the most hostile and occasionally dangerous circumstances. Accordingly, it is time for policy makers and national and local decision-makers to value, protect, respect, and invest in our nurses for a sustainable future for nursing and health care. Recent reports have provided the evidence for change and called for action and investments in nursing. It is time to look to the future and dedicate to the development of nursing and healthcare.

As we all know Nurses are key to healthier communities, responsive societies, thriving economies and powerful nations. So presently all over the world policies are created to promote sustainable health systems that are required to optimise the wellbeing and the unique contribution of the nursing workforce. These policies are necessary for the current nursing workforce to continue its crucial journey of providing care for the populations it serves, as they were fatigued and weak after the epidemic. Nurses all over the world are working together to plan the future direction of nursing to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, Universal Health Coverage, and Health for All.

The present Issue of the Malaysian Journal of Nursing similarly upholds nursing practice by publishing vast array of articles that strengthen and modernise regulation and advanced nursing care. The journal is equipped with information that will help to protect the nursing profession to rebuild health systems and to recognise and value nurses’ skills, knowledge, attributes, and expertise.