Introduction

Nursing in the twenty-first century has to meet today’s challenges in the globalized world. Understanding the meaning of globalization has significant implications for the health of individuals and nursing education.

Global Nursing perspective enables an active statement worldwide due to the current situations with migrants and refugees. In addition, priorities in the  health of individuals highlight human values. Hence, there is a significant disparity concerning health in a changing world.

The purpose of this review was to create an understanding of the meaning of Global Nursing from accessible scientific nursing literature.

Methods  

This review integrates and provides scientific knowledge from articles related to Global Nursing. Literature from different designs and multiple research methodologies was included and analyzed during 2015.

Results

Global Nursing brings knowledge about Nursing workforce, Nursing management and Nursing values.

Global nursing integrates self-awareness, ethics, history, technology and culture as central ideas in nursing.  A point of departure is that questions related to people’s health and their humanity knows no boarders. The focus is on the relations between norms and power that give awareness of human equalities.  

Global Nursing also integrates individual and organizational aspects with questions of health policies and political priorities in worldwide health care practice. Academic activism is an important part of this elaboration that facilitates social responsibility, justice and empowerment. 

Conclusion

The meaning of Global Nursing is used in various ways and in different contexts according to this review. Moreover, there is no distinct description of the concept in the literature and therefore, it needs to be further explored.  

Relevance to clinical practice

Global Nursing needs to be developed within nursing faculty and curriculum to strengthen the discipline and to respond to the challenges of a changing world.