“Nursing Now grew rapidly into a highly visible, active campaign and provided us with some important lessons to take forward in building the future of nursing. It has shown us the power of acting together and finding powerful allies.”
Dr Barbara Stilwell, Executive Director, Nursing Now
The story of the Nursing Now campaign is of nurses and their allies coming together around the world, growing in influence, and building a platform for improving health and health care for the future.
There are now more than 800 independent and self-funding Nursing Now groups in 126 countries and more than 31,000 young nurses and midwives have participated in the Nursing Now ‘Nightingale Challenge’.
Nursing Now is a programme of the Burdett Trust for Nursing. In collaboration with the World Health Organisation and International Council of Nurses, Nursing Now aimed to raise the status and profile of nursing.
“The Nursing Now campaign has shone a spotlight on nursing for the last three years and created a powerful network of nurses around the world. The Nursing Now Challenge will build on this legacy at a time when the pandemic has shown how vital nursing is in all aspects of health and health care.”
Nursing Now Co-Chair
Established in 2018, Nursing Now is a global campaign to improve health by raising the status and profile of nursing.
To celebrate 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, the Nightingale Challenge aimed to equip and empower the next generation of nurses and midwives as leaders, practitioners and advocates in health.
