No more meaningless handclapping of nurses

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No more meaningless handclapping of nurses

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Nurse Statue in Canada
The Nurse Statue in the garden of the Galt Museum & Archives in Lethbridge, Canada. Photo by Graham Ruttan

Today is International Nurses Day. Jenny Carryer reflects on the role, saying it’s viewed in an outdated way, leaving nurses’ potential yet to be released

The COVID-19 crisis has evoked the inevitable calls all over the world to recognise nurses as angels and heroes. Such calls are short lived and se