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          “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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You're welcome to sign the Nightingale Declaration — joining in solidarity & advocacy for nursing the world!
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.        Today, the global COVID-19 pandemic calls for a renewal of this pledge — beginning with  'We the nurses & concerned citizens....”                    This Declaration​ clarifies and commits to our shared purposes
 to work together to call for — to share ideas — and to build a better world for everyone. In keeping with this call — it also
encourages global citizen advocacy to achieve the 17 United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals ​— often called the  SDGs.
In the 2020 Year of the Nurse & the Midwife / Nightingale Bicentenary—from across the world
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.
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health •  2020 ©