There are never enough opportunities to celebrate our nurses, but Nurses Day and Nurses Week are the perfect time to pause, reflect, and express thanks to these hardworking professionals. Don’t forget to incorporate this year’s inspiring Nurses Day theme of “Our Nurses. Our Future. Caring for nurses strengthens economies.”
When is Nurses Day in 2025?
There are tons of occasions to celebrate nurses throughout the year. Be sure to mark your calendar so you don’t miss a single National Nurses Day in 2025.
Nurses Day 2025 key dates:
- Perianesthesia Nurse Awareness Week, Feb 2, 2025 – Feb 8, 2025
- Certified Nurses Day, Mar 19, 2025
- Patient Experience Day, Apr 30, 2025
- Transplant Nurses Week, Apr 20, 2025 – Apr 26, 2025
- Nurses Week / Nurse Appreciation Week / National Nurse Week, May 6, 2025 – May 12, 2025
- National School Nurse Day, May 7, 2025
- National Student Nurses Day, May 8, 2025
- National Hospital Week, May 11, 2025 – May 17, 2025
- National Nurses Month, May 2025 (all month)
- National Neonatal Nurses Week, Sep 7, 2025 – Sep 13, 2025
- Nursing Professional Development Week, Sep 7, 2025 – Sep 13, 2025
- National Nephrology Nurses Week, Sep 14, 2025 – Sep 20, 2025
- Emergency Nurses Week, Oct 5, 2025 – Oct 11, 2025
- National Midwifery Week, Oct 5, 2025 – Oct 11, 2025
- Sterile Processing Week, Oct 12, 2025 – Oct 18, 2025
- International Infection Prevention Week, Oct 19, 2025 – Oct 25, 2025
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Week, Nov 2, 2025 – Nov 8, 2025
- National Nurse Practitioner Week, Nov 9, 2025 – Nov 15, 2025
Ways to celebrate Nurses Day in 2025
We’ve rounded up the best ideas for celebrating Nurses Day this year from gift ideas to heartfelt tributes.
- Personalized thank-you notes: Give fellow healthcare professionals, administrative staff, and patients the chance to express their gratitude with a digital group card for nurses from Kudoboard, or set up a station in your break room or patient waiting area for hand-written notes.
- Give a gift: Gifts don’t have to be extravagant to go a long way towards telling hardworking nurses you see and appreciate their effort. From scented candles to cozy socks to meal delivery service subscriptions, we rounded up 50 top gift ideas for nurses to help you express your gratitude in time for Nurses Day 2025.
- Volunteer: Go beyond candy striping to make a difference in your local community’s hospital or clinic. Walking a mile in a nurse’s shoes while contributing to the vital ecosystem that is community healthcare can help you appreciate the hard work of nurses everywhere while making things a little easier for these dedicated professionals. The American Red Cross can help you connect with the right volunteer opportunity for you.
International Nurses Day celebrations around the world
World Health Organization
WHO will be holding a webinar and releasing their groundbreaking State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report to celebrate International Nurses Day 2025. Doctors and nurses from around the world will present the report to certified nurses and leaders across the globe. The report dives into the biggest challenges facing nurses today as diseases evolve and health care systems look to nurses to shoulder more of patient care than ever before.
Finland
The International Council of Nurses will be holding its annual ICN Congress in Helsinki June 9-13th, 2025. From masterclasses to keynote speakers to a nurse-led hackathon, this conference is sure to celebrate and spotlight nurses with concrete ideas for policies and positive change that can support the profession throughout 2025 and beyond.
Netherlands
Clinical nurse specialist Palle Bager will be presenting the results of a study on nurse-led clinics for patients dealing with cirrhosis at the EASL Congress in Amsterdam May 7th-10th, 2025. The hepatology-themed conference will bring nurses and other healthcare professionals together to reflect on recent advances, many of which are staffed or led by nurses.
United Kingdom
There are many ways to celebrate Nurses Day 2025, but it’s no surprise that the Brits prefer the pub. Nurses and those who love them will gather at the Pumphandle Social Bar in London to raise a pint to nursing students and professionals in and around the city.
How to use Kudoboard to help celebrate Nurses Day in 2025
If you’re running a two-person medical clinic or a healthcare agency with thousands of staff, Kudoboard has you covered for Nurses Day 2025.
- Share boards for individual nurses in your clinic: Small clinics can create Kudoboards for each of their nurses and send the links around or post them on social media so fellow staff, patients, and community members can easily express their personalized gratitude.
- Thank the whole nursing staff with a Nurses Day Kudoboard: With one central board, your community can say thanks to the nurses that make a difference in their lives anytime throughout National Nurses Week 2025 or beyond. This board can easily show off community gratitude in slideshow form on TVs in your patient waiting area or at healthcare events throughout the year. Don’t forget to turn on the QR code so people can express their thanks in real time.
- Nurses thanking nurses: A private Kudoboard just for nurses and staff creates the perfect stage for nurses to thank each other, especially if it’s chock full of inside jokes and (HIPAA-compliant) patient stories. Fostering engagement and gratitude among nursing staff is critical to nurses feeling appreciated and helps beat burnout.
Wrapping it up
There’s no shortage of ways to celebrate National Nurses Day and Nurses Week 2025, and tons of opportunities throughout the year to do so depending on your nursing speciality. Don’t forget to bookmark this page to keep the full list of National Nurses Days at your fingertips throughout the year.
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