Today marks the start of National Nurses Week.
The theme for this year’s observance is Ethical Practice, Quality Care which aims to recognize the knowledge, compassion and ethics that nurses demonstrate every day.
Dallas County Hospital Chief Clinical Officer Donna Vandehaar says nurses work in various healthcare roles in hospitals, clinics, schools, community health and long term care. In each of those settings, Vandehaar says the nurses provide highly skilled, safe quality care while showing compassion, inspiring courage and giving hope for those they care for.
She encourages everyone to join her in saluting nurses in our community who are “extremely devoted to their calling of providing the best care and compassion to the patients they serve.”
Nurses Week runs through May 12th.