Have You Thanked a Nurse Lately?

Celebrate National Nurses Week, May 6-12

Nurses have helped build a healthy America and they deserve our thanks and admiration. From the time Florence Nightingale - “The Lady with the Lamp” - worked to improve the quality of care for patients, nurses have been practitioners of both an art and a science. The level of dedication to helping others must be sizable, the required knowledge base is considerable and the stamina to go on asks everything of a person.

Emergency rooms, private practices, clinics and shelters are the battleground on which staff nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse researchers and educators fight for patient safety. Funding to maintain proper resources has been difficult, more so during a recession than ever. There aren’t enough instant payday loans and installment loans to repay what nurses are worth. They deserve more than a Nurses’ Day 2009, so they got an entire week: National Nurses Week 2009.

Wednesday, May 6 is National Nurses’ Day

It begins then, and concludes on May 12, commemorating the birthday of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. American Nurses Association (ANA) President Rebecca Patton
has created a press release that thanks nurses for all that they do and points toward this year’s theme, “Nurses: Building a Healthy America.” She recognizes that through disaster and crisis, today’s nurses must continue to move forward in compassion and build on their nursing education. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Have You Thanked a Nurse Lately?"