ICN : the history of nursing.

A corporate video made to accompany an exhibition held in Geneva in January-February 1999 to mark the centenary of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). With a wealth of archive film footage, photographs, posters and other visual ephemera, it traces the history and development of the ICN and of nursing during the twentieth century. It describes how the ICN grew from a small organisation in a few countries in Europe and North America to become a global organisation. Current and former leaders of the ICN explain how it has helped to mould the profession of nursing and the provision of healthcare throughout the world. They emphasise the ICN's importance in helping to estasblish both national and international standards for nurses' training, registration, ethics, clinical practice and for their professional status and working conditions. Using footage of nurses from all around the world, the film stresses the global importance of nursing for health care. Amongst those taking part are Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland (WHO Director General), Kirsten Stallknecht (ICN President), Dame Sheila Quinn (nursing historian & former ICN Vice-President), Judith Oulton (current C.E.O., ICN) and many ordinary nurses including 100-year-old U.S. nurse Mi