Challenges and Advances in Nursing Practice in Latin America

Dear Colleagues,

Nursing professionals are essential for health systems, although their economic and social importance is undervalued. Nursing is a profession that operates across various health fields, such as prevention and health promotion, hospital care, public health, continuing education, and direct patient care, among others, and nurses are present in all phases of the human lifecycle. The broad training this requires, which is characteristic of the nursing discipline, has enabled the expansion of the areas of activity of its professionals.

Global environmental changes, such as changing population structures and disease patterns, the emergence of infectious diseases, and new lifestyles, are challenges that can impact nurses’ performance and practice in complex and globalized scenarios, calling for the nursing discipline to be framed in a global perspective to facilitate the discussion of new topics and the deepening of already acquired knowledge.

This Special Issue seeks to delve deeper into the panorama of challenges and advances in nursing in Latin America, as well as to discuss the scenario of nursing social practice. Topics of interest include: nursing work environments; the global nursing staff shortage; the increasing spread of zoonoses and pandemic threats; responses to growing social pressures, particularly those facing vulnerable populations; the training and management of professional nursing education and the diversification of study programs; innovation in nursing and health; control of chronic non-communicable diseases; the social role of nursing professionals; and the problems of precariousness, excessive workload, fatigue, stress, and illness.

Prof. Dr. Rejane C. Marques
Dr. Elaine Maria Leite Rangel
Dr. Márcia Teles de Oliveira Gouveia
Dr. José Wicto Pereira Borges
Guest Editors

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• nursing
• health system
• nursing work environments
• nursing practice
• nursing education
• vulnerabilities
• global nursing
• sustainable development