This week is a week when the American Nurses Association urges all of us to celebrate nursing careers. While most of these celebratory weeks start on a Sunday and run through a normal 7 day week, Nurses Week is special because it always starts seven days prior to May 12, 2009.
Why May 12, you ask?
That’s the birthday of Florence Nightingale, of course. Since she served to start the path of modern nursing, I decided to select an appropriate idea to celebrate the people that started each of us on the path to becoming a nurse.
Celebrate Nurses Week by thanking the person who inspired you to become a nurse!
Each of us is a nurse because someone inspired us either before we entered nursing school or perhaps just after as we were mentored early in our careers. Take 5 minutes and write them a note thanking them for their inspiration and standing as a role model.
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