A Light in the Dark: Celebrating National Nurses Week

May 6 is the first day of National Nurses Week, which ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday and International Nurses Day, May 12. With the state of the world under COVID-19, there is no better time to celebrate nurses than right now.

Like Nightingale carrying her lamp through the night to check on wounded soldiers, today’s nurses are bringing a different kind of light to the COVID-19 outbreak. They are putting their own lives at risk to help others. They are fighting a disease no one understands.

This year’s theme for International Nurses Day is “Nursing the World to Health.” That is exactly what they are doing.

Nurses are a special breed. We will be honoring our outreach nurses throughout National Nurses Week. Please read our blog to see interviews with each of them beginning May 6, and follow us on social media to like and share their stories. Let’s show them the love that they show everyone else.