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Role of nurses in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are designed for a healthier and more efficient future. Unemployment, injustice, poverty, climate change, ecological pollution, stability, and equality are worldwide concerns they confront. The sustainable development goals in health care are the same, like making a firm commitment to ending AIDS, TB, malaria, and other contagious diseases pandemic by 2030. The goal is to provide universal health coverage and ensure everyone can access safe and cheap medications and vaccinations (Sustainable Development Goals, 2020). The social determinants of health (also known as SDH) are factors that influence people's health (SDH). The SDH are the circumstances in which people are born, develop, earn, and survive and how these circumstances affect their health and everyday life. While nurses strive to assist patients in attaining their best health, we routinely address SDH in their practice. Nurses know the connections between broader problems and personal and community health (Hughes, 2017). The heightened issue in health care is inequality and socioeconomic status. The Millennium Development Goals contributed significantly to the improvement of billions of people individuals around the globe. Still, the difference between rich, poor, educated, uneducated, healthy, and healthy increases daily. SDG’s goals are to remove all such inequalities around the globe. This inequity affects the health care system, and epidemics can spread quickly in developing areas or poor communities. Nurses enter the field to improve the health of individuals and communities. This is at the heart of what nursing is all about (Benton & Shaffer, 2016). The COVID-19 epidemic exposed flaws in public health systems, including a lack of healthcare staff and resources like personal protective equipment. In this pandemic, nurses, who make up the most significant part of the health care system, offer their services day and night. Nurses put their total effort, and their training makes them withstand all such painstaking responsibilities. There effort made to control such pandemic situations globally. Yet there is an increase in the overall number of nurses, but there is still more need for nurse staff than in the market. Nursing does not have to be the driving force behind every initiative. Still, it should be a key player in attaining some of the objectives and part of a well-coordinated and supporting alliance for others. Nursing has been more effective in tackling the SDGs, albeit with a more restricted involvement pattern. In short, notwithstanding the world health organization’s position on the impact of health in all programs, nursing is primarily focused on wellbeing goals. It has yet to address a broader range of concerns (2017). Nurses provide care to patients in all contexts and stages of their lives. Their contributions are crucial to meeting global goals like universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. In this initiative, the deployment of health professionals, notable nurses, is critical. Nurses are more than ever involved in knowing a resource for these SDGs, and their role is being emphasized more now than ever. Nurses find many ways to contribute to developing their state and improving the living standards of their people (How the Nursing Profession Can Contribute to Sustainable Development Goals, 2021).