Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.After his father abandoned him soon after he was born, his Irish mother returned with him to her home town of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to live with her mother and grandfather on Shankill Road.atterson began using the pseudonym Jack Higgins in the late 1960s; his first minor bestsellers appeared in the early 1970s, two contemporary thrillers The Savage Day and A Prayer for the Dying but it was the publication of his thirty sixth book, The Eagle Has Landed, in 1975, that made Higgins' reputation.
In May 2015, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) adopted two new Compacts: the âenhancedâ RN Compact and the APRN Compact. The âenhancedâ Compact is intended to replace the NLC and must be advanced through state legislatures and signed by the Governor to go into effect.
Nurses Day was first proposed by the Dorothy Sutherland (an officer from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) in the year 1953 and first proclaimed by the President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And it was first celebrated by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in the year 1965. In the month of January in 1974, the 12th of May was declared to be celebrated as the birthday anniversary of the founder of modern nursing, the Florence Nightingale.