Creating our Future by Celebrating our Achievements
Journal: AORN Journal
Year: 2019

May is a special month for the nursing profession. National Nurses Week is recognized each year from May 6 to 12, ending on Florence Nightingale's birthday. Florence Nightingale's influence on the nursing profession and on modern health care is well documented. Her work in the Scutari Barracks Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, caring for Britain's wounded soldiers during the Crimean War was the catalyst for developing a plan of care that included infection prevention strategies, nursing workflows, a