​​Thursday 12 May is International Nurses Day. In opinion pieces for the media, Profs Hester Klopper (Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Strategy, Global and Corporate Affairs) and Portia Jordan (Department of Nursing and Midwifery) emphasise the importance of investing in the education and training of nurses to address the critical shortage of appropriately qualified nursing staff globally. Click on the links below to read the articles.

• Prof Hester Klopper (Daily Maverick)
• Prof Portia Jordan (Health24)

​Photo by Rusty Watson on Unsplash.​