To commemorate the year 2020 as designated by World Health Organization (WHO) as “year of the nurse and the midwife” in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, International Council of Nurses (ICN) launched a Nightingale challenge to empower every health employer around the world to provide leadership and development training for a group of young nurses and midwives.

A press release from College of Nursing (CON), Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR) stated that, CIHSR organised a two-day seminar-cum-workshop on “nursing governance and leadership in the 21st century” on February 27 and 28 for nurses under 35 years of age.