Toward the 2020 Nightingale Bicentenary: Global Advocacy for Health Achievements
Famous for battlefield care and the founding of modern secular nursing, Florence Nightingale’s legacy encompasses a much wider range of health care issues keenly relevant to today. Anticipating the year 2020 as the Bicentenary of her birth, pro-active preparations are well-underway to engage the world’s estimated 19 million nurses and midwives in a global scale of advocacy to achieve the health of humanity in Nightingale’s name.