This week we celebrate the extraordinary efforts of the superhero of the Coronavirus Pendamic: the nurses, doctors, and healthcare workers during National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2020
Let’s be completely real without them we would all eventually die. They deserve to be celebrated.
As an established national event, National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th. May 8 is designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually.
The nursing profession has been supported and promoted by the American Nurses Association (ANA) since 1896. The ANA supports and encourages National Nurses Week recognition programs through the state and district nurses associations, other speciality nursing organizations, educational facilities, and independent health care companies and institutions.
According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), the first Nurses Week was observed between October 11 through 16, 1954, to mark the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s mission to Crimea.
For a more detailed timeline on National Nurses Week History you can visit here.
Similarly to Florence Nightingale’s contributions to nursing one story in particular is quite remarkable.
Susan Yowell, 64, a Nevada nurse based in Mesquite practising for over four decades, was sent to Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center for a month to help with NYC’s coronavirus pandemic response. She tells Joshua Rhett Miller of The New York Post
The “sheer number of patients” was most overwhelming” adding that the victims she saw succumb to the disease ranged widely in age, including some in their 30s and 40s.
Practicing for four decades she is not the new kid in the park. She has witnessed more than her fair of people on deaths door. This is not her first time traveling to assist where there was a greater need.
Yowell was present during the aftermath of 9/11 where she treated patients at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Three years later at the height of the Ebola epidemic, she showed up, got to work, and through her experience she was able to educate the California medical practitioners about the then deadly virus.
Despite the post-traumatic stress-inducing situation here in New York Yowell calls the coronavirus pandemic “1,000 times worse than expected.” Be that as it may, Yowell is prepared to take her month-long New York tri
To show support for the health care works around the country numerous companies have joined the ANA in sharing their gratitude by offering deals, discounts, freebies, and a host of other comforts to give thanks to the medical professionals.
Below you can find a list where you can get them something to eat, or something comfortable to wear, perhaps during the few moments of respite something fun to do.
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