International Nurses Day (IND) is an international day observed around the world on 12 May (the anniversary of Florence Nightingale‘s birth) each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has celebrated this day since 1965.[2] In 1953 Dorothy Sutherland, an official with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, proposed that President Dwight D. Eisenhower […]