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She has just been named the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award, with the prize aiming to recognise and celebrate the extraordinary contribution of nurses across the world. &#8220;Nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare, so when they (governments) get it right (in terms of investing in nursing), the system also will get it right,&#8221; she told us in Perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[3468,3812,37353,37354,21723,2864],"class_list":["post-87706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-award-winning","tag-healthcare","tag-heartbeat","tag-naomi-ohene-oti","tag-nurse","tag-nurses","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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