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Our Excellent Nurses Make a Difference Every Day
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At United General Hospital, we're fortunate to have one of the best nursing staffs around. Our nurses are highly skilled, dedicated, energetic and caring. This week we take time to say THANK YOU to all our nurses for the difference they make in our lives.
From bedside nursing to the halls of research institutions, state
legislatures, and Congress -- the depth and breadth of the nursing
profession is meeting the expanding health care needs of American
society. Please join us in recognizing the significant contribution they are making every day.
National Nurses Week History
1953 Dorothy Sutherland of the U.S. Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare sent a proposal to President Eisenhower to proclaim a
"Nurse Day" in October of the following year. The proclamation was
never made.
1954 National Nurse Week was observed from October
11 - 16. The year of the observance marked the 100th anniversary of
Florence Nightingale's mission to Crimea. Representative Frances P.
Bolton sponsored the bill for a nurse week. Apparently, a bill for a
National Nurse Week was introduced in the 1955 Congress, but no action
was taken. Congress discontinued its practice of joint resolutions for
national weeks of various kinds.
1972 Again a resolution was
presented by the House of Representatives for the President to proclaim
"National Registered Nurse Day." It did not ...
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