The American Nurses Association selected the evergreen theme, Nurses Make a Difference to honor the varying roles of nurses and their positive impact on our lives. As part of the celebration, they’ve divided the month into four weekly focus areas — Self-Care, Recognition, Professional Development, and Community Engagement, and provided resources for each week.
Find out more at https://nursesmonth.org/about-nurses-month/
2021 was a year for nurses and while there are many things that could be said about that, we’re just going to bring some good news out of it:
For an impressive 20-year running, nursing was rated as the most trusted profession once again in 2021, according to a Gallup poll. To be perfectly frank, 2021 saw some marked changes in how some professions are perceived in trustworthiness—military officers, for example, fell by a full 10 points from 2017 and even grade-school teachers dropped to almost all-time lows.
It appears that American people are more cautious about who they are handing out their trustworthy badges to, so that makes the fact that nursing nabbed the #1 spot yet again—for the 20th year in a row!—all the more impressive.
Read more at https://nurse.org/articles/nursing-ranked-most-honest-profession/
ANA President Ernest Grant announces the “Year Of The Nurse” at the 2019 Magnet Conference.
