Nurses Week Themes Set

Posted by Kathy Quan Feb 28, 2008

Each year the International Council of Nurses designates a theme for International Nurses Day which is May 12 in honor of the birth date of Florence Nightingale an iconic pioneer of the nursing profession.

Did you know that as she collected statistacal data to support her theory about sanitarty conditions contributing to the death of wounded soldiers during the Crimean War in Turkey that Florence Nightingale also developed the PIE chart?

She used this new format to help prove that the decline in deaths of wounded soldiers under her care was due to the fact that she had taught the 38 nurses she brought with her to Sculari to use improved sanitary methods in caring for the wounded soldiers.

Infection control is just one area of specialty in the nursing profession today. Nurses Day and Week celebrations are to honor nurses for all that they do in their jobs and in service to their communities as well as to encourage young people to become nurses.

The general public can help to honor nurses by establishing and participating in Nurses Day and Week activities throughout their communities.

Honor local nurses by raising awareness of the nursing profession. Here are a few suggestions:

• Take a group of nurses to lunch and learn about what they do in their particluar jobs
• Establish and promote local scholarship campaigns to help new nurses become nurses, and active nurses continue their education

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