National Nurses Week 2010!
May 10, 2010
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Philadelphia VA Medical Center is one of many health care facilities nationwide celebrating National Nurses Week 2010, which began May 6 and continues through May 12.
Activities in Philadelphia include award presentations, open house sessions, national guest speakers, profe ssional development seminars, a workshop for effective research writing, and the National Nurses Day Fair. The fair is the keynote event of the week and features poster presentations by nurses to highlight new patient care programs and equipment, as well as research activities.
This year’s Nurses Week theme is “Nurses: Caring Today for a Healthier Tomorrow.” With 77,000 nurses, the Department of Veterans Affairs is the nation’s largest employer of the profession.
Annually, National Nurses Week begins on May 6, marked as Nurse Recognition Day, and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of nursing as a modern profession.
National Nurses Week is devoted to highlighting the diverse ways in which registered nurses, the largest health care profession, work to improve health care. From bedside nursing in hospitals and long-term care facilities to the halls of research institutions, state legislatures, and Congress, the depth and breadth of the nursing profession is meeting the expanding health care needs of American society and its Veterans.
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