Happy Nurses Week/Month and Year!!!!

Happy May 6th!  The beginning of Nurses’ Week.  I am sure that you are aware of it also been claimed that 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

ANA also declared it as Nurses’ Month.  The Theme this year is:  Compassion, Expertise, and Trust

See below for a message from the NLN-the current President, Patricia Yoder-Wise and the CEO, Beverly Malone!

May 12th. 2020 is the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, the 19th-century social reformer known as the founder of modern nursing.
 
“With demand for their services at an all-time high and a persisting worldwide nursing shortage across all health care settings, nurses are even more valued than normal. This is an ideal time to raise public awareness of the recognition of nurses as the nation’s most trusted professionals,” said NLN President Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, RN, EdD, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAONL, FAAN, Professor and Dean Emerita at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and president of The Wise Group. “This campaign highlights nurses’ strengths as key to the robust public health response mounted against the coronavirus pandemic. The characteristic competence, compassion and sensitivity of nurses, along with the skilled care expected of healers, are more evident than ever, as they have risked personal health and safety to treat patients and communicate with family members unable to be present. Nurses are frequently the primary connection between the inpatient setting and the community.”
 
NLN CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, said, “As the shortage of nurses in today’s public health crisis makes clear, nursing education must play a vital role in expanding the ranks of a diverse, outstanding workforce to help meet current and anticipated global health care needs. With this in mind, the National League for Nursing is encouraging qualified nurses to step forward in greater numbers to pursue the advanced degrees and leadership development required to achieve faculty status.”

The League is promoting the benefits of “teaching what you love” in following a career path into nursing education. With demand for nurses and nurse educators expected to remain high, the campaign is both an expression of thanks to nurses at the center of the coronavirus maelstrom and a call to action to facilitate the critical expansion of the nursing workforce through nursing education.

Benefits of a career in nursing education include:

• Fulfillment — Taking pride in encouraging students and sharing in their accomplishments
• Intellectual stimulation — Keeping up with the latest strategies and methodologies in curricula, teaching, learning and assessment
• Research — Investigation and publication of scholarship to advance the science of nursing education
• Flexibility — In work schedules and teaching environments, including online instruction made possible through new technologies
• Impact — Inspiring the next generation of nurses and shaping educational and health care policies
• Competitive Pay — The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics lists median pay for nurse educators at more than $73,400

• For more information, go to NLN.org.

I am so proud to be a Registered Nurse!  I know that you are too!

Happy Nurses’ Week!

Catherine Mohammed, President AzLN