In the unparalleled and extraordinary public health emergency in which we find ourselves, across the world, nurses stand, as they always do, at the front line. Nurses account for more than half of all the world's health care workers, 1 providing vital services throughout the health care system. Around the world, they are demonstrating their compassion, bravery, and courage as they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and never has their value been more clearly demonstrated. Extreme measures were taken to boost the critical care nursing workforce, with retired staff, Operating Department Practitioners, theatre, recovery, and ward nurses asked to join the critical care frontline. 2,3 The current situation will undoubtedly take its toll on