Friday marked International Nurses Day, a time to honour the invaluable work being done by members of the nursing profession.
The special event is celebrated around the world on May 12 every year, the date Florence Nightingale was born.
Regarded as the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing British nurse, statistician, social reformer and leader of improved health care.
She was also known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ because of her nightly practice of checking on sick soldiers with a light, especially during the Crimean War.
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has celebrated this day, May 12, since 1965. In 1953 Dorothy Sutherland, an official with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, proposed that President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaim a ‘Nurses’ Day’, but he did not approve it. In January 1974 the move was made to establish a date, and May 12 was chosen to celebrate the day as it is the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
The theme for 2023 International Nurses Day is ‘Our Nurses, Our Future’.
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