With 20 top videos curated from dozens posted online....

Commemorating The 2020 International Nurses' Week!

Since 1965, the International Council of Nurses (ICN)  has celebrated May 12th—the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth—as International Nurses Day—to mark the contributions nurses make to society. This year's theme Nurses: A Voice to Lead—Nursing the World to Health is keenly relevant. The courageous work of nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals—in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis—truly honours the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. She would be so proud! 

Above, London celebrates Florence Nightingale's 200th Birthday and today's nurses with a light show on the face of Britain’s iconic Parliament House—across the River Thames from Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital—originally designed by Nightingale—and the Florence Nightingale Museum. This image is from highlighted coverage of the 2020 International Nurses’ Day by the website of Big World Tale.

Global Praise & Commendation  

Organizations around the world are commemorating the brave and noble work that all nurses do. To the right, members of the Royal Family share their appreciation with nurses from across the Commonwealth. At the beginning, the Queen is greeted by Kathleen McCourt, President of the Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation representing 54 nations across the world.

​Also featured here are three videos bringing praise and commendation from organizations representing nurses at global levels. The World Health Organization designated 2020 as the 'Year of the Nurse & the Midwife'—a rare commendation in the 72-year history of WHO. 

From Britain's Royal Family

From the World Health Organization

From the International Council of Nurses

From Nursing Now

Appreciative Videos Collected from Across the World

Here are 16 top videos—curated from dozens featured online—posted to say THANK YOU for everything nurses are doing to heal our world!   ENJOY!

From the Royal College of Nurses in Britain

Cheering on American Nurses!

From Canadian  Prime Minister Trudeau

Honouring Florence at the London 
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

​Nurses Appreciated in China

From Across Canada with the CNA
—First Nations Acknowledged--

Visionary Words from Anne Marie Rafferty

Voices of Nurses from India

Having Some Fun in Manitoba! 

Singing a Song for Nurses in Australia

"Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their biggest strength and fatal flaw."
​                                               Dr. Jean Watson

Celebrating 'Day of Care' in Germany

”Nursing is an art and—if it is to be    an art—it requires as exclusive a devotion—as hard a preparation—as any painter's or sculptor's work. For what is the having to do with dead canvas or cold marble—compared with having to do with the living body—the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts. I had almost said, the finest of the Fine Arts.”
                     Florence Nightingale, 1859

From Dubai in the United Arab Emirates

From Hardship to Recognition in Uganda

Beautiful Graphics from Brazil

Commemorative Music from the Silk Road

KUDOS! Even from Pluto the Dog!