The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals were created to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change were adopted by world leaders at a historic United Nations Summit in September 2015. Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) is directly linked to the work nurse practitioners engage in globally. Within Sustainable Development Goal 3 there are a number of key target indicators that are to be met. However, the extent to which these key target indicators have been addressed in the last two years by Nurse Practitioners has not been fully explored.
Methods:
An integrative review of how Nurse Practitioners globally have addressed Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) within the published literature was conducted. The main keyword of Nurse Practitioner was used in combination with keywords related to each Sustainable Development Goals 3 target indicators which were deemed pertinent by the research group were utilized in searches of online databases. Limits of the search were those published in English between the dates of January 2016 (when the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals came into effect) to January 2018. The databases searches which were conducted includes Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Experta Medica Database (EMBASE), and Pubmed. Further identification of publication's country of origin as well as level of evidence using the Joanna Briggs Institute Levels of Evidence scale will be performed.
Results:
Preliminary results to date indicate that not all Sustainable Development Goal 3 target indicators have been met by nurse practitioners in the published literature. However this will be substantiated once integrative review process and time frame is completed at the end of January 2018.
Conclusion:
Globally nurse practitioners work in a variety of settings to provide care for complex populations. The integrative revealed interesting nurse practitioners practice in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 target indicators. More emphasis should be placed on publication of NP practice which could contribute to meeting SDGs. This will to inform our nursing colleagues, other healthcare professionals and healthcare policymakers the role that NPs play now and into future to achieve the goal of Good Health and Wellbeing within any global health care setting.