International Nurses Day
IND 2023 Webinar - ICN President and WHO CNO
27 min 58
International Nurses Day
IND is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. ICN commemorates this important day each year with the production and distribution of the International Nurses' Day (IND) resources and evidence.
The theme for the 2023 resource is Our Nurses. Our Future.
Our Nurses. Our Future. will be a global campaign which sets out what we want for nursing in the future in order to address the global health challenges and improve global health for all. We need to learn from the lessons of the pandemic and translate these into actions of the future.
With the release of the State of the World’s Nursing report, the Global Strategic Directions for Nursing & Midwifery, the Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond and many other important publications, ICN and other organisations have shown the evidence for change and called for action. It is now time to look to the future and demonstrate what these investments will mean for nursing and healthcare. The Our Nurses. Our Future. campaign will shine the light on nurses and on a brighter future.
The IND posters are part of a set of resources which will be released in the lead up to International Nurses Day. This includes a social media toolkit, a Charter for Change, presenting 10 policy actions that governments and employers must take to create and sustain health care systems that are safe, affordable, accessible, and responsive, and a report setting out prescriptive evidence informing actions required for progress and transformation.
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Past INDs:
- 2022 - Nurses: A voice to lead - Invest in Nursing and respect rights to secure global health
- 2021 - Nurses: A voice to lead - A vision for future healthcare
- 2020 - Nurses: A voice to lead - Nursing the World to Health
- 2019 - Nurses: A voice to lead - Health for All
- 2018 - Nurses: A voice to lead - Health is a Human Right
- 2017 - Nurses: A voice to lead - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Key Documents
International Nurses Day 2023 - Our Nurses. Our Future.
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IND 2023 - Charter for Change
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Dr Cipriano used the webinar to introduce ICN’s year-long International Nurses Day campaign, Our Nurses, Our Future, while Dr Tuipulotu praised ICN’s leadership and highlighted the importance of having a collective voice for the world’s 28 million nurses
The campaign includes ICN’s Charter for Change, which lists ten policy actions required to create and sustain safe, affordable, accessible and responsive health care systems
The ICN today announced the theme for International Nurses Day (IND) 2023: Our Nurses. Our Future. and launched its new IND logo