国际护理协会(ICN，ICN Advancing Nursing and Health World Wide)
2009年“5.12”国际护士节活动主题——
提升质量，服务社会，护士领导健康服务的创新
(Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Care Innovation).
2008年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“提高社区护理品质，引领初级卫生保健”（ Delivering Quality,Serving communities. Nurse Leading Primary Health Care.）
2007年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“营造优良执业环境，提供优质护理服务”（Positive Practice Environment: Quality Workplace = Quality Patient Care）
2006年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“合理配置护士，保证病人安全” （Saff staffing Saves lives）
2005年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“为了病人安全，抵制伪劣药品”
（In order to patient safety, the boycott and shoddy drugs）
2004年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“护士：携手战胜贫困”
（Nurses: work together to fight poverty）
2003年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“护士：反对歧视AIDS，关爱全人类”(Nurses: Fighting AIDS Stigma, Caring for All.)
2002年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“无论何时何地，护士永远为你服务：关爱家庭”(Nurses Always There for You: Caring for Families)
2001年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“无论何时何地，护士永远为你服务：联合反对暴力”(Nurses, Always There for You: United Against Violence)
2000年“5.12”国际护士节主题——
“无论何时何地，护士永远为你服务”
(Nurses - Always there for you )
Themes of International Nurses Day 1988-2009
2009 - Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Care Innovation
2008 - Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Primary Health Care
2007 - Positive practice environments: Quality workplaces = quality patient care
2006 - Safe staffing saves lives
2005 - Nurses for Patient Safety: Targeting Counterfeit and Substandard Medicines
2004 - Nurses Working with the Poor; Against Poverty
2003 - Nurses: Fighting AIDS Stigma, Caring for All.
2002 - Nurses Always There for You: Caring for Families
2001 - Nurses, Always There for You: United Against Violence
2000 - Nurses - Always there for you
1999 - Celebrating Nursing's Past, claiming the future
1998 - Partnership for Community Health
1997 - Healthy Young People = A Brighter Future
1996 - Better Health through Nursing Research
1995 - Women's Health: Nurses Pave the Way
1994 - Healthy Families for Healthy Nation
1993 - Quality, costs and Nursing
1992 - Healthy Ageing
1991 - Mental Health - Nurses in Action
1990 - Nurses and Environment
1989 - School Health
1988 - Safe Motherhood