I hope you have been enjoying Nurses Week. Have you had some of the free food and discounts we listed on Nurses Day? Please be sure to avail yourself of these. It helps to spread the awareness of nurses in your community and just might encourage someone to join our profession. The other thing is to remember always that as nurses we make a difference in someone’s life everyday! We may never know how or when with some of our patients or families, but there will be those who touch our hearts and leave a lasting impression. It’s easy to grumble that Nurses week means nothing and your employer gave…
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Nurses Fire Back at Ignorant TV Hosts
When ANY of the general public has the mistaken impression that nurses don costumes and borrow the doctor’s stethoscope for some unknown reason, it tells us that we have a huge problem in health care in this country. People tend to believe everything they see and hear on television and the ladies of ABC’s The View have tried to set back nursing 100 years as they showed they know nothing about the nursing profession! The good news is that nurses have UNITED and all over Facebook and Twitter and other social media they are stopping the collateral damage the way nurses do everyday. Kelley Johnson Google Images When Kelley Johnson,…
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Happy Nurses Day!
Today begins the annual week long celebration of the nursing profession. No you won’t be buried in lavish gifts! If you’re really lucky perhaps you”ll receive a small token of appreciation and maybe a buffet of breakfast or lunch. And no, even if the employer kept that money, you couldn’t get a significant raise from it. Celebrate YOU all by yourself perhaps or with your co-workers if you’re lucky to have some wonderful ones. Let’s hope you have many great co-workers. Nurses have to find and make their own rewards. It is not often that you’ll ever see the end results of the great care you give, or the education…