McKnight's January 13, 2022
In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) joined forces to celebrate nurses with the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
Originally created to honor the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth and to elevate the critical role nurses play in transforming healthcare around the globe, the Year of the Nurse took on new meaning during the COVID-19 pandemic as the visibility and appreciation for all that nurses do rose to new levels.
In a year designated to honor and uplift nurses, too many nurses were instead placed in unimaginable circumstances, with nearly 80% of registered nurses saying the pandemic strained staffing in their unit to “unsafe levels.” WHO and ANA even extended...
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