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You are cordially invited to share your name in this Nightingale Declaration form
AND to share your 'voice' in the text box. Your input will be read and integrated into our ongoing global dialogue.

“We—the nurses and concerned citizens of the global community—hereby dedicate ourselves to achieve a healthy world.

We declare our willingness to unite in a program of action, to share information and solutions and improve health conditions for all humanity—locally, nationally and globally.
           
​We further resolve to adopt personal practices and to implement public policies in our communities and nations—making this goal achievable and inevitable—beginning today in our own lives, in the lives of our nations and in the world at large."

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Narrators: Wayne Kines & Deva-Marie Beck  /  Image Credits 

Traducteur & Narrateur: ​Marisha Wojciechowska-Shibuya / Crédit images 

This Declaration is our founding cornerstone created — as a shared credo — to inspire, engage and empower nurses and concerned citizens — worldwide. Modeled after the ‘Preamble’ to the United Nations founding Charter with the words, “We the peoples of the United Nations...” this Declaration is the foundational premise of all of NIGH’s activities. Now featured in thirteen languages — including French — with many more to come, including Indigenous versions — the Nightingale Declaration clarifies and commits to our common goals and mutual purposes — to work together to call for and share ideas and build a better — more inclusive — world for everyone.  

We also use the Nightingale Declaration
to advocate for achieving the UN SDGs.

We encourage nurses—and especially students—to submit related stories. 
​See our Submission Guidelines >>>

This Declaration was first crafted at an international nursing conference in Toronto in 2003—during the  global SARS epidemic where many patients and nurses were dying at hospitals nearby.   
In our time, the global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted our call for  a renewal of this pledge—beginning with  'We the nurses & concerned citizens....”    In keeping with this call—this Declaration  also  encourages global citizen advocacy to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals—often called the  SDGs.

300 Nursing & Midwifery Leaders Share the
​Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World Together

​This short video features more than 300 Nursing & Midwifery Leaders — from across the world — who together recited the'Nightingale Declaration for a Health World'  during the  closing ceremonies of the 2020 Conference of the Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation on March 7, 2020 at the Royal College of Physicians in London, UK.