Just how much do we know about Nurses Week? We dug down our history books and found these six intriguing and interesting facts about nurses week you probably didn't know.
The message of the value and need for nurses has also come through clearly over the past year in worldwide initiatives, reports, and statements by world and healthcare leaders.
A Filipino nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering two patients and poisoning 22 others by contaminating saline drip bags with insulin at Stepping Hill hospital in Greater Manchester.