nurses week 2024-2025
nurses week 2024-2025
Every year, National Nurses Week begins on May 6 and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. National Nurses Week is now a well-established recognition event thanks to these fixed dates, which make planning easier. Starting around 1998, May 8 was assigned as Public Understudy Medical attendants Day, to be commended yearly. Additionally, since 2003, National School Nurse Day is observed annually on the Wednesday of National Nurses Week, which runs from May 6 to May 12.
Since 1896, the American Nurses Association (ANA) has supported and promoted the nursing profession. Every one of ANA’s state and regional medical caretakers affiliations advances the nursing calling at the state and provincial levels. On these dates, each organizes celebrations to honor nurses and the contributions they make to the community.
Through state and district nurses’ associations, other specialty nursing organizations, educational establishments, and independent health care businesses and institutions, the ANA supports and encourages National Nurses Week recognition programs.
A Brief History of National Nurses Week
- In 1953, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Dorothy Sutherland made a proposal to President Eisenhower to make October the following year “Nurse Day.” The announcement was never made.From October 11 to October 16, 1954, was observed as National Nurse Week. The 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s trip to Crimea was the year of the celebration. The bill for a nurse’s week was sponsored by Representative Frances P. Bolton. It appears that a bill to establish a National Nurses Week was presented to Congress in 1955, but nothing was done about it. For a variety of national weeks, Congress stopped using joint resolutions.
The House of Representatives again proposed in 1972 that the President declare “National Registered Nurse Day.” It didn’t happen.
1974: “International Nurse Day” was declared by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in January of that year. The date of Florence Nightingale’s birthday is May 12.) “International Nurse Day” has been observed by the ICN since 1965.
1974: President Nixon made a proclamation and the White House designated a week in February as National Nurse Week.
May 6 was designated as “Nurses Day” by Brendon Byrne, governor of New Jersey in 1978. Edward Scanlan, a resident of Red Bank, New Jersey, took up the cause to maintain the state’s recognition of nurses. This date was listed in Chase’s Calendar of Annual Events by Mr. Scanlan. He alone promoted the celebration.
In 1981, the ANA and other nursing organizations came together to support a resolution that nurses in New Mexico, through their Congressman Manuel Lujan, had proposed to make May 6, 1982, “National Recognition Day for Nurses.”
1982 On May 6, 1982, the ANA Board of Directors officially declared it “National Nurses Day.” The action confirmed that May 6 would be designated as “National Recognition Day for Nurses” by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
1982 On March 25, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation establishing May 6 as “National Recognition Day for Nurses.”
In 1990, the ANA Board of Directors established National Nurses Week, which ran from May 6 to May 12, 1991, to commemorate nurses.
In 1994 and every year after that, the ANA Board of Directors set the dates of May 6-12 as the permanent dates for National Nurses Week.
1996 On May 6, 1996, the American Nurses Association (ANA) established “National RN Recognition Day” to recognize the nation’s indispensable registered nurses for their unwavering dedication throughout the year. May 6, 1996, should be designated as “National RN Recognition Day” by the ANA’s state and territorial nurses associations and other organizations.
1997 The National Student Nurses Association urged the ANA Board of Directors to declare May 8 as National Student Nurses Day.
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