Happy National Nurses Day! I want each of you to do something special just for YOU today! Nursing is a field where we have to make and find our own rewards in what we do everyday and how we make a difference for someone every day. We don’t always get thank you’s, and don’t often get to see a situation resolved fully. We’re always helping people move to the next step and handing them off. So do something to honor yourself today! (And every day!) In 1893, Mrs. Lystra E. Gretter and the Farrand Training School for Nurses wrote an adaptation of the physician’s Hippocratic Oath for nurses. Nurses Day…
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2018 National Nurses Week Give Aways: the Rules
National Nurses Week begins tomorrow, May 6 and runs through May 12. May 6 is National Nurses Day and May 12 is Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Other days during the week have significance as well and it coincides with Teacher’s Week. So we happily celebrate people who make a difference in the lives of others. This year’s theme is Nurses Inspire Innovate Influence — indeed we do! TheNursingSiteBlog.com has a special Give Away contest annually and this year we have some really terrific prizes available. To celebrate nurses, we have invited nurses who have products, services and written books for nurses to donate and we’ll help support them through some publicity…
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Honor Yourself This Nurses Week
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Free ANA Webinar for Nurses Week 2018
The American Nurses Association once again offers a free webinar for Nurses Week. The webinar will be presented on Wednesday, May 9 at 1:00 PM ET. The 2018 webinar is entitled Emerging Technology and Its Impact on Nursing Practice and is presented thanks to an educational grant from the American Nurses Foundation. The webinar covers the continuing evolution of technology in healthcare and provides insight as to what to expect in the future of nursing and how to adapt. Dan Weberg PhD RN is the presenter. Register for the webinar by 7:00 PM ET on Tuesday May 8 and you have until May 16 to verify attendance and complete the…
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Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: How These 9 Medical Centers Answered the Call
Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: How These Nine Medical Centers Answered the Call By Deborah Swanson Spring 2018 An interesting juxtaposition has emerged in the last 50 or so years: most major health organizations agreed that breast milk is the best source of nutrition for infants, and at the same time, more moms invested in their careers than ever before (almost 70 percent of mothers were in the workforce in 2015, compared with just 47 percent in 1975). Integrating breastfeeding into a full-time workday is a major challenge for new mothers, and studies show that workplace barriers contribute to low rates of breastfeeding. To address this, in 2010, the United…