Nurses' Role In Prevention Of Infant And Under-five Child Mortality In Africa

The under-five mortality rate remains unacceptably high with 6.3 million children dying before their fifth birthday in 2013. Research has, however, revealed that nurses are the means to reducing these untimely deaths. The aim of this research is to examine and identify the role nurses play in preventing and reducing infant and under-five mortality. The purpose of the study was to provide research based information of the position of nurses in consideration to childhood deaths. Data for the research were obtained from PubMed and ScienceDirect search engines as well as manual data search. The a…