International Nurses Day 2023: This day is to thank all nurses for their dedication. Nurses are essential to safeguard public health. As Val Saintsbury rightly said, “Nurses provide comfort, compassion and care without even a prescription.” Let’s read more about International Nurses Day, its theme, history and how it is celebrated.
Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence (Italy) and is known as the founding philosopher of modern nursing. She is also famous as “The Lady with the Lamp.” She was a British nurse, statistician and social reformer, founder and philosopher of modern nursing. During the Crimean War, she was in charge of caring for British and Allied soldiers. She spent several hours in the wards and all night she attended to patients, visited them, made night rounds with a lamp in her hand and thus an image of her as “The Lady with the Lamp” was established. Due to her efforts to formalize nursing education, in 1860 she opened the first science-based nursing school, the Nightingale School of Nursing, at St. Thoma’s Hospital in London. She was also instrumental in establishing the training of midwives and nurses in asylum infirmaries. Do you know that she was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit in 1907?
International Nurses Day 2023: Theme
International Nurses Day 2023 will be celebrated with the theme “Our nurses, our future”. This global campaign sets out what we want for nursing in the future to address global health challenges and improve global health for all. We need to learn from the lessons of the pandemic and translate them into future actions.
The theme for 2022 is Nurses: A Voice to Lead: Investing in Nursing and Respecting Rights to Ensure Global Health.
The theme for 2021 is Nurses: A Voice to Lead: A Vision for Future Healthcare. The topic focuses on how nursing will look to the future and also how the profession will transform the next stage of healthcare.
The 2020 theme was Nurses: A Voice to Lead: Leading the World to Health. The topic focuses on how nurses play a crucial role in addressing a wide range of health challenges. The day encourages nurses and the public to celebrate the day. It will also provide information and resources to grow the profession throughout the year and attract a new generation to the nursing family.
The 2019 theme was “Health for All.” And the theme for National Nurses Day 2019 is “Nursing: The Balance of Mind, Body and Spirit.”
International Nurses Day: History In 1953, Dorothy Sutherland, an official at the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, contacted President Dwight D. Eisenhower and proposed celebrating “Nurses Day” . At that time he did not approve of her proposal. Since 1965, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has celebrated this day. Finally, in January 1974, May 12 was officially declared ‘International Nurses Day’ because Florence Nightingale, who is the founder of modern nursing, was born on this date. Every year on this day, ICN prepares and distributes the International Nurses Day kit, which consists of educational and public information materials that nurses can use among the public. Let us tell you that National Nursing Student Day has been celebrated on May 8 since 1998 and National Nursing Week is celebrated from May 6 to 12.
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift for that person, something beautiful.” – Mother Teresa
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How is International Nurses Day celebrated?
In the United States and Canada, an entire week is celebrated as National Nursing Week. Even in Australia, various nursing ceremonies are organized. All this week, health services internationally are in the spotlight. Even the American Nurses Association supports and encourages the celebration and work of Nurses.
Various activities such as educational seminars, a variety of community events, debates, competitions, discussions, etc. are also carried out. Additionally, nurses are honored and appreciated by friends, doctors, administrators, and patients by distributing gifts, flowers, hosting dinner parties, etc.
International Nurses Day: Importance
Across the world, we cannot ignore the fact that nursing is the largest health profession in the world and is the key factor in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Various training modules are provided to nurses to maintain the health and well-being of patients. No doubt, nurses have deep knowledge to provide the best healthcare services. Do you know that National Nurses Associations (NNAs) play an important role in encouraging nurses, providing them with educational and well-informed advice so that they can do their job correctly? Additionally, NNA works with government and non-government organizations to strengthen healthcare systems.
What is the International Council of Nurses (ICN)?
It is an organization that operates nurses and leads nursing internationally. They ensure quality nursing care for all and sound health policies around the world. Every year the ICN chooses a theme to celebrate International Nurses Day. The resources and evidence address critical issues of the time and highlight the many ways nurses are making an impact.
So, we can say that International Nurses Day is celebrated all over the world to create awareness about nursing as a profession and also about the contribution of nurses to the healthcare regime. Nurses are the people who meet the local needs of patients, have adequate knowledge on how to properly treat patients, improve the physical and mental well-being of patients, etc.
Nurses play an essential role in our medical institutions, such as providing security or assisting in the recovery of patients, etc. Without a doubt, when a patient needs care, nurses work tirelessly to identify and protect the individual’s needs. They have immense knowledge and various skills that they employ in an organization to achieve perfection and development. More often than not, nurses work in difficult environments where extreme stress is part of their job.
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