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National Nurses Week Celebration


National Nurses Week to Be Celebrated May 6-12 at MCC

On May 6, 2013, the MCC Department of Nursing is joining the American Nurses Association in celebrating Nurses: Delivering Quality and Innovation in Nursing Care, as part of National Nurses Week, which is held May 6-12, every year. Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions because of the many opportunities the profession offers. As nurses, we work in emergency rooms, school based clinics, and homeless shelters, to name a few. We have many roles – from staff nurse to educator to nurse practitioner and nurse researcher – and serve all of them with passion for the profession and with a strong commitment to patient safety.

Now more than ever, RNs are positioned to assume leadership roles in health care, provide primary care services to meet increased demand, implement strategies to improve the quality of care, and play a key role in innovative, patient-centered care delivery models. The nursing profession plays an essential role in improving patient outcomes, increasing access, coordinating care, and reducing health care costs. That is why both the Affordable Care Act and the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Future of Nursing report place nurses at the center of health care transformation in the United States.

The public wants leaders they can trust – and nurses consistently rank at the top of a respected annual poll as the most trusted profession. In 2011, Americans again voted nurses the most trusted profession in America for the 12th time in 13 years in the annual Gallup poll that ranks professions for their honesty and ethical standards. Nurses' honesty and ethics were rated "very high" or "high" by 84 percent of poll respondents.

Every year, National Nurses Week focuses attention on the diverse ways America's 3.1 million registered nurses work to save lives and to improve the health of millions of individuals.  MCC’s Department of Nursing is proud to recognize registered nurses and licensed professional nurses everywhere on this particular day for the quality work they provide seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Enjoy the slide show on the monitors in the Marketplace and elsewhere on campus during Nurse’s week.

Shelley Fess
Nursing
05/01/2013