Since 1965, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has celebrated International Nurses Day.

Every year on May 12th, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, International Nurses Day is observed. It is a global event that recognizes and honors the dedication and bravery of nurses all across the world. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) creates and distributes the International Nurses’ Day kit each year, which contains useful educational and public information items that nurses around the world can use.

However, each country marks the day in their own unique way. In the United Kingdom, for example, each year in Westminster Abbey in London, a symbolic lamp is passed between nurses until it reaches the Nurses’ Chapel, where it is then put on the High Altar. This represents the transfer of knowledge from one nurse to the next.

Every year, the International Council of Nurses commemorates this significant day by creating and disseminating International Nurses’ Day (IND) resources and information.

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