Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) -- 2010 is the International Year of the Nurse and marks the centennial of the death of Florence Nightingale - considered to be the founder of modern nursing.
Calling all nurses! 2010 is the International Year of the Nurse. It is also the centennial year of the death of the founder of modern nursing – Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).
To celebrate this historic milestone, the 2010 International Year of the Nurse is planned as a sustained public awareness initiative to actively involve the world’s nurses – estimated to be more than 15 million – in a celebration of commitment to bring health to their communities, locally and worldwide.
- Visit the IYNurse 2010 website: www.2010iynurse.net to read nurse tributes and nurse stories and to find out more about the International Year of the Nurse.
- Nurses may also want to visit the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health, or NIGH, and the Nightingale Declaration — www.nightingaledeclaration.net. This is a grassroots, nurse-inspired movement to increase global public awareness about the priority of health and to empower nurses and concerned citizens to stand for a healthy world everywhere.