Nurses as a social force

Nurses as a Social Force will be the theme of the 18th ICN Congress to be held in 1985 in Tel Aviv. If nurses are to make a full contribution to health care, planning programmes must have a nursing input. How this can be achieved, by individual nurses and by national nursing associations, is the subject of Guidelines produced by the Professional Services Committee of ICN. An abridged version of the Guidelines is published here, based on document BD/84/PSC/7.