Two hundred years after the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Organization designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. But it's no surprise if you didn't know. In fact, thanks to COVID-19, what was supposed to have been a celebratory year has all but slipped by without much celebration. The timing of Certified Nurses Day on March 19th was particularly unfortunate. That was the week most states began to see their first cases of coronavirus.