Creating a Shared Vision for Nursing

As we launch into the Year of the Nurse and Mid-wife, marking the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth, there is much to look forward to in 2020. Numerous events and celebrations have been planned throughout the year, particularly with some schools of nursing also marking significant anniversaries. Indeed, in this country and others, there are many accomplishments to be celebrated in the context of the profession's evolution over the last two centuries. We should be proud but remain ever vigilant and appropriately responsive to circumstances that threaten our ability to sustain and effectively evolve into the future.