national nurses day 2024-2025
national nurses day 2024-2025
Each year, ICN creates and distributes materials and evidence to honor International Nurses’ Day (IND).
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has marked this day since 1965. Dorothy Sutherland, a United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare employee, proposed in 1953 for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to designate a “Nurse’ Day,” but he was opposed.
In January 1974, the date of May 12 was chosen to commemorate the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, the pioneer of modern nursing. The International Nurses’ Day Kit is created and distributed annually by ICN. Nurses everywhere can use the educational and public information materials in the kit. National Student Nurses’ Day was established on May 8 of each year beginning in 1998.
Themes
ICN themes for International Nurses Day:
- 1988 – Safe Motherhood
- 1989 – School Health
- 1990 – Nurses and Environment
- 1991 – Mental Health – Nurses in Action
- 1992 – Healthy Aging
- 1993 – Quality, costs and Nursing
- 1994 – Healthy Families for Healthy Nation
- 1995 – Women’s Health: Nurses Pave the Way
- 1996 – Better Health through Nursing Research
- 1997 – Healthy Young People = A Brighter Future
- 1998 – Partnership for Community Health
- 1999 – Celebrating Nursing’s Past, claiming the future
- 2000 – Nurses – Always there for you
- 2001 – Nurses, Always There for You: United Against Violence
- 2002 – Nurses Always There for You: Caring for Families
- 2003 – Nurses: Fighting AIDS stigma, working for all
- 2004 – Nurses: Working with the Poor; Against Poverty
- 2005 – Nurses for Patients’ Safety: Targeting counterfeit medicines and substandard medication
- 2006 – Safe staffing saves lives
- 2007 – Positive practice environments: Quality workplaces = quality patient care
- 2008 – Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Primary Health Care and social care
- 2009 – Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Care Innovations
- 2010 – Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Chronic Care
- 2011 – Closing The Gap: Increasing Access and Equity
- 2012 – Closing The Gap: From Evidence to Action
- 2013 – Closing The Gap: Millennium Development Goals
- 2014 – Nurses: A Force for Change – A vital resource for health
- 2015 – Nurses: A Force for Change: Care Effective, Cost Effective
- 2016 – Nurses: A Force for Change: Improving Health Systems’ Resilience
- 2017 – Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
- 2018 – Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Health is a Human right
- 2019 – Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Health for All
- 2020 – Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Nursing the World to Health
- 2021 – Nurses: A Voice to Lead – A Vision for Future Healthcare
- 2022 – Nurses: Make a Difference
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