Second State of the World's Nursing report expected in 2025. A second State of the World's Nursing report will be produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2025. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement via video address to the more than 6,000 nurses attending the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress 2023 in Montreal in early July. The WHO will work with the ICN to produce the report, which will detail the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global nursing workforce. Speaking at a news briefing shortly after the announcement, ICN president Pamela Cipriano and chief executive officer Howard Catton said the organization had lobbied for a second State of the World's Nursing report because the data included in the first, which was produced in 2020, was gathered before the pandemic. Since then, the nursing workforce landscape has changed significantly, with reports of many nurses leaving the profession and significant increases in international recruitment and the replacement of RNs in some countries with nonlicensed personnel. The WHO director-general urged all nurses to work with their national nursing organizations "to support and advocate for your country's efforts to share robust data, on which this critical report depends."