International Nurses Day
May 12, 2022
International Nurses Day (IND) commemorates Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing and nursing education. Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English female nurse. During the Crimean War from 1854 to 1856, she led 38 nurses to the front line to participate in the care of the wounded and sick, established a hospital administrator system, improved the quality of care, and made a rapid decrease in the mortality rate of the wounded and sick. In 1860, she founded the first nursing school in the United Kingdom in London, which made the nursing career gradually professional and scientific, and promoted the development of nursing work and nurse education in Western European countries and around the world.