National Nurses Week 2025 is being marked by a range of companies and organizations offering food discounts, product giveaways and special perks to recognize nurses' critical work. This year's celebration runs from May 6 through May 12,

The origins of National Nurses Week began in the early 1950s, when a week in October honored nurses around the same time of the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s mission to Crimea, according to the American Nurses Association.