AimThis investigation explored the extent to which nurses’ own health is a priority for global National Nursing Associations.BackgroundThere is a growing body of evidence linking staff health and well‐being and key dimensions of service quality, including patient safety, patient experience and the effectiveness of patient care.IntroductionThe International Council of Nurses is a federation of more than 130 National Nurses Associations, representing more than 20 million nurses worldwide. Representatives from these Associations attended a Congress in Singapore in 2019 at which a survey was conducted.MethodsA convenience sample of 37 leaders of National Nurse Associations from 33 countries and 61 nurse representatives took part in a survey.ResultsThe majority of nurse leaders and participants believed that nurses’ own health should be a priority to be addressed, principally because a healthy nurse is better able to provide good patient care. All of the examples offered about how these Associations address nurses’ own health were about actions to prompt individual health behaviour change.DiscussionThe National Nurses Associations did not have a common terminology to talk about nurses’
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