Today, May 6th, 2020, is National Nurses Day. The first day of National Nurses Week. Thank a nurse t

GregP_WN
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edited May 2020 in General Cancer
HISTORY OF NATIONAL NURSES DAY
National Nurses Day is the first day of National Nursing Week, which concludes on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Yet the week was first observed in the US in October 1954 to mark the 100th anniversary of Nightingale’s pioneering work in Crimea.

In 1953, Dorothy Sutherland of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare sent a proposal to President Eisenhower asking him to proclaim a “Nurse Day” in October of the following year to coincide with the anniversary. Although the President didn’t act, the celebration was observed thanks to a bill sponsored by Representative Frances P. Bolton, and the following year a new bill was introduced to Congress lobbying for official recognition of the celebration.

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  • JaneA
    JaneA Member Posts: 335
    edited May 2020
    My chemo and radiation nurses were just fabulous - so reassuring and so genuinely concerned about me at every visit. I will never forget them.
  • Bengal
    Bengal Member Posts: 518
    edited May 2020
    When I was going through treatment I saw the doctors rarely. Who I saw on a regular basis, who was there to answer my questions, who were the ones who had to deal with the bad days (and I had bad days), bring me drinks, blankets, anti-nausea meds, the most recent photos of their babies and ad infinitum? It was the nurses! Thank you ladies and gentlemen. You are tops.
  • BuckeyeShelby
    BuckeyeShelby Member Posts: 196
    edited May 2020
    Thanks for the reminder. Even though I'm almost 8 yrs out, I still occasionally email my nurse case manager from back then. You reminded me to drop her a line.
  • cllinda
    cllinda Member Posts: 153
    Nurses and their techs are the ones that get the job done. I have so much respect for nurses now that I have gone through cancer. And I have family that are nurses and they have been treated poorly by hospital patients. That is so uncalled for. When I hear their stories, it just makes me so angry. My sister in law has had people throw a tray of food at her, and so many other things. It shocks me when I hear this.

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