International Nurses Day 2025 theme revealed
The wellbeing of nursing staff will be the focus of the 2025 International Nurses Day (IND), those behind the initiative have revealed.
IND is celebrated each year on 12 May, which this year would have been Florence Nightingale’s 205th birthday, and is used to celebrate the nursing profession and raise awareness about the greatest challenges nurses around the world are facing.
“By prioritising the wellbeing of nurses, we are ensuring that they can continue to provide the high-quality care that is critical to the health of our communities”
Pamela Cipriano
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) – which organises IND celebrations – this week revealed that the 2025 theme will be: “Caring for nurses strengthens economies”.
It marks the continuation of the overarching multi-year theme of “Our Nurses, Our Future”, which aims to raise the profile of nursing and show how important the profession is for health systems.
The 2025 theme, the ICN said, has been chosen to highlight how a healthy and secure nursing workforce is crucial to the overall functioning of healthcare.
Dr Pamela Cipriano, president of the ICN, said it would promote the importance of supporting the physical and mental health of nurses.
“Nurses face numerous challenges: physical, mental, emotional and ethical, and it is imperative that we address these challenges in a way that promotes their overall health,” said Dr Cipriano.
“This theme provides an opportunity to bring actionable solutions to the forefront – solutions that can be implemented immediately to support nurses in their daily work and improve their long-term health.”
International Nurses Day 2025 branding
Like last year’s IND theme, this one will also draw attention to the benefits that nurses have to the economies of the nations they serve.
Dr Cipriano added: “Our goal with IND 2025 is not only to highlight the challenges nurses face but also to provide a roadmap for enabling a healthier nursing workforce.
“By prioritising the wellbeing of nurses, we are ensuring that they can continue to provide the high-quality care that is critical to the health of our communities.”
As part of the celebrations of IND, Dr Cipriano’s organisation will publish its annual report.
This, the ICN said, will discuss “tangible, evidence-based solutions” that can improve the mental and physical health of nurses in a way that recognises “their crucial role in optimising both health systems and economies”.
In 2024, the theme was “The Economic Power of Care”, which emphasised the need for governments to invest in increasing the size and sustainability of their nursing workforce.
Other previous years’ themes have included “Safe Staffing Saves Lives”, “Safe Motherhood” and “Better Health Through Nursing Research”.
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