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International Nurses Day
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Key facts
- Also called
- ICN
- Observed by
- Various countries
- Date
- 12 May
- Next time
- 12 May 2027 ( 2027-05-12 )
- Frequency
- annual
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- world day
- Official website
- www.icn.ch/how-we-do-it/campaigns/international-nurses-day
- Image
- Nursing students.jpg
- Organizer
- International Council of Nurses
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “International Nurses Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.