According to the American Nurses Association, National Nurses Week was first celebrated in mid-October 1954 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's mission to Crimea, where she and a team of volunteer nurses helped soldiers wounded in the Crimean War against Russian expansion.

National Nurses Week is here, and numerous options for freebies come with it. Every year, National Nurses Week is celebrated on the same days, spanning the seven days leading up to Florence Nightingale's birthday,