Year of the Nurse and Midwife

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We’re celebrating the Year of the Nurse, and want to hear from YOU! Show us the breadth and importance of nurses today by entering the #NursingInFocus Photo Contest. Put a moment of your life in focus—whether you’re a nurse, work with nurses, receive care from a nurse, or just know a nurse—we want to see photos that document all that nurses do!

Experience and technical skills as a photographer are not the sole criteria for winning. Photos submitted should convey the opportunities, challenges, highs and lows of nursing today. We want to see nurses everywhere, leading, innovating, caring and so much more.

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$2,500 in prize money

Prizes

$ 1
Best in Show
$ 1
5 Category Winners
$ 1
People's Choice

The Categories

Nurse At Work || #NurseAtWork

Show us a moment in your professional career – whether you’re in a facility, or at a policy-briefing!

Future Nurse || #FutureNurse

Not a nurse yet, but you’re on the path? Dream of becoming a nurse? Document your journey!

Where I'm a Nurse || #WhereINurse

Nurses are EVERYWHERE. Show us where YOU nurse!

Why I'm a Nurse || #WhyINurse

Nurses are passionate, dedicated and courageous…tell us why you do what you do!

The Impact of Nurses || #NurseImpact

Nurses save lives, improve health and transform futures every day. Show us your impact.

How to Enter

In order to submit your photograph, you must post it to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag: #NursingInFocus. If you’re entering one of the 5 categories, you must additionally include hashtag for the category you are entering. Entering a category does not exclude you from also winning the top overall prize. Photographs do not have to be current. If you have a strong entry from many years ago, we will consider it. However, preference will be given to more recent photography.

No Limits

There are no limits to the number of photographs you may enter, but we encourage you to choose your best.

High Resolution

In order for your photo to be used in live galleries or other events, you must be able to share a high-res file upon request.

No Mail

Please do not mail us hard-copy submissions, we will not accept them. Scans of non-digital photographs are acceptable if posted digitally.

Consent & Privacy

"Social media can be a powerful tool for rapidly communicating, educating and influencing and has a significant potential to strengthen the nursing profession...Although social media has much to offer, it is important that nurses understand their professional responsibilities regarding its use." - The International Council of Nurses

For photographs in which a patient, client, provider or other person is recognizable, the subjects included in the photograph must provide clear, informed verbal consent for the photograph to be taken and to be posted publicly on social media. Without this consent, please do not post your photograph. Offering respect and privacy to all subjects is of the utmost importance.

We do not encourage or condone, and will not consider photographs that violate a subject’s right to privacy. Contest entries must follow all applicable laws and policies regarding photography and the use of social media in and around the workplace.

To learn more about using social media responsibly as a nurse, click below to visit the International Council of Nurses’ social media position.

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We encourage you to follow Jhpiego, NursingNow and ICN on social media to keep up-to-date on contest happenings, including the announcement of judges and any other prize offerings! Click below to follow us.

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Terms

#NursingInFocus Photo Contest begins January 1, 2020, and ends March 1, 2020 at 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time. By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees to the rules of the contest and states that he or she is 18 years old or older.

You retain your rights to your photograph; however, by entering the contest, you grant Jhpiego, Nursing Now and ICN a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part. Any photograph reproduced will include a photographer credit.

The contest begins on January 1, 2020. All entries must be posted to social media (Instagram, Facebook or Twitter) using the hashtag #NursingInFocus by 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on March 1, 2020.

Photo entries will be judged based on creativity, quality, originality, responsiveness to the prompt and overall impact. Jhpiego, Nursing Now and ICN will select a winner for each category, and a Best in Show winner.

Judges will select 5 additional photos to be voted on publicly as a People’s Choice winner after completion of the contest.

Jhpiego, Nursing Now and ICN will notify winners via direct messaging on their social media account, and by tagging winners in a post.

Jhpiego, Nursing Now, ICN, and contest sponsors may select photos to highlight on their social media channels, website, or live events around the Year of the Nurse. In these cases, photographers will be made aware prior to use of the photo.

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Stories of impact

Check in with the Frontline Health Workers Coalition throughout 2020 for Frontline Perspectives, a multi-partner blog series showcasing the impact of nurses and midwives on the frontlines of care across the world.

Nurses are in the lead in Botswana’s drive to eliminate cervical cancer​, and the country’s national self-collection effort is putting prevention in women’s hands.
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Diana Armah Sanni, 25, holds the items she uses for her practical exercises at Cape Coast Midwifery School, Cape Coast, Ghana, on Monday 4 June 2018. Jhpiego has set up a ‘skills lab’ at the Cape Coast midwifery school, and sponsored the development of learning apps to help facilitate the training of new midwives.
Trainee nurses attend early morning prayers at the nursing college in Dehradun that receives technical support from MCHIP in Dehradun, India Tuesday, May 27, 2014. (Kate Holt/ MCHIP Photo/)
Emilia Hayford, who is a nurse and a Community Health Officer (CHO) walks to a clients house in the community of Akentenchie, Ghana on the 14th January, 2016. Jhpiego are working with communities throughout the area through the training of Community Health Officers and volunteers who are going out into the communities to promote health messages through the CHIPS programme.
Met the health volunteer Mamadjibeye Sarah, 26, at the Miandoum ACT health clinic to follow her home to work with Sarah who is hoping to go to college and be a nurse. She studies when she can for her exams...though no schedule yet for that. Meanwhile she is helping with the family farm where they grow peanuts, maze as well as other stuff. But she had two children, baby, Denelelem Prudence, 1 and a half and Carla Nekouanodi, 8. She is separated from her husband who is in N'Djamena. Her father is the village chief.
At the CHRD2 and CSB2 in Mirandrivazo midwife and nurses to prenatal checks, doctor looking in on women who gave birth and also following a Community health worker into the community to target youth between 10 and 24 with TMT program: Health worker is Raznamalala Celice, 38, The river where she went s Mahajilo. She goes down there to speak to potential clients and to talk to them about health offerings at the clinic. She is wearing the blue solid uniform.
Midwife Trainees listen to a theoretical lesson at the Midwifery Training Colleget at the Ghazenfer health Science instititue in Kabul, Afghanistan on the 19th May, 2010.
Bahir Dar town, Amhara region of Ethiopia, Science College training nurses and midwives. s Student Wubetie Agalu, gives the "vaccination"
Maichew Town, Lemlem Karl Hospital (built 1991)in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Safe Surgery Practice implemented there. General Surgeon, Dr. Tesfaye Abraham, 40, supports the effort. He has worked at the hospital for 11 years.He is especially interested in infection prevention especially with post surgery. Doing knee surgery on Ekari Hssen, she came in from the countryside. Helping Dr. Tesfaye with surgery is operating nurse Sister Shamble Kahssay, 47, Gashaw Tsegaw, 29, he is the emergency surgeon (not a doctor) He is studying at Mekelle University, technically still a student. The Nurse anesthetists are Solomon Desta (male) and Meselu Kiros, 45. She was a guerrilla fighter during the war and patched up soldiers. Unusual to have two nurse anesthetists. Meselu is looking at the patients record. While Solomon works with the patient.
Third year midwifery students, who are expected to take their licensing examination later this year, take part in a practical training session at the at the Korle Bu Nursing and Midwifery Training School Accra, Ghana Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. There are a total of 79 students enrolled in the third year who are due to graduate in August.
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