Every year from May 6th to 12th, Nurses are recognized for their service and dedication to caring for others and improving the health of patients nationwide through National Nurses Week. Throughout the week, healthcare organizations celebrate their teams, and people across the nation thank the nurses that have made a difference in their lives.
With this year’s theme; “Our Nurses. Our Future”. The CRSPHCDA Director General Deaconess Mrs Abasioffiong Offiong has congratulated/felicitated with her fellow Nurses in the State while celebrating the efforts, dedication, and sacrifices they make every day. “As Nurses, we are essential members of our healthcare workforce who provide care through every stage of life, working with patients at their most intimate and vulnerable moments. This Week offers us a chance to highlight and celebrate ourselves for all we do.
National Nurses Week honors our contributions and sacrifices and reminds us to thank the medical professionals who keep us healthy. The advent of modern Nursing is credited to Florence Nightingale, who laid the foundation for professional nursing through her tireless work during and after the Crimean War. As a nursing manager on the frontlines, Nightingale introduced hygiene protocols and other measures that drastically reduced infections and deaths in battlefield hospitals, her feats we continued till date.
Today, Nurses work in a wide range of specialties and settings, from school nurses who administer vaccines to highly specialized oncology nurses who assist in life-saving treatment decisions. I therefore congratulate, felicitate and thank all other nurses out there for receiving unkind words with smiles on their faces, putting their resources on the abandoned patients, and above all, giving hope to the hopeless and respite to the ailing ones.” she added.
To acknowledge the contributions of nurses and call attention to their working conditions, the International Council of Nurses established May 12 as International Nurses Day in 1974. The celebration was extended to a week a few years later, and National Nurses Week was officially born in 1994, the week-long event highlights the crucial contributions that nurses make to the community.