Interview with David Benton, CEO of the International Council of Nurses, on the lack of nurses at the World Health Organization (In the News, July 2012)

According to the ICN, there were approximately 200 nurses working for the WHO in 1968; today that figure has dropped to eight. Further, the position of Chief Scientist, Nursing and Midwifery, a directorate position, has not been replaced. AJN’s editor in chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical managing editor Karen Roush discuss the ramifications of the diminished nursing presence at the WHO with Benton and how ICN is putting pressure on the WHO to reinstate a nursing presence.