Today is National Registered Nurse Recognition Day!

[Earth_First]

Here's to my mother who has been a RN with Hospice for nearly twenty years...

[shenmue]

1. Yay!

Nurses are neat.

[locks]

6. Nurses are caring special people

including my dear daughter, a nurse for 25 years.

[Scuba]

2. Nurses Remain Nation's Most Trusted Professionals

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/775758

Medical professionals are among the most trusted people in the United States, a new Gallup survey shows, with 85% of survey respondents ranking nurses highest for honesty and ethics, followed by pharmacists (75%) and physicians (70%).

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The poll asked respondents, "Please tell me how you would rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in these different fields — very high, high, average, low, or very low?" A list of 22 professions was then provided in random order to each person contacted. Spanish-speaking respondents were interviewed in Spanish.

Nurses, who have led the rankings for 11 consecutive years, were ranked "high" or "very high" for honesty and ethics among 85% of respondents. The survey has been conducted annually since 1976, and nurses were first included in 1999.

"This poll consistently shows that people connect with nurses and trust them to do the right thing," said American Nurses Association President Karen A. Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, in an association news release. The only time nurses were not first on the list was 2001, after the terrorist attack of September 11, when firefighters ranked first. Firefighters have not been included in polling in any other years.

[sarge43]

3. Nurses are the human face of medicine.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.

[mucifer]

4. I've been a hospice nurse for 8 years.

[Earth_First]

5. Thank you for your invaluable service!

Hospice takes a very special person...

[NewJeffCT]

7. Hooray to all the nurses out there

and all the hard work that you do.

[Mr.Bill]

8. My wife is a retired RN.

Her daughter from a previous marriage if the fourth generation to be an RN in that family.


You know what they tell you the first day of nursing school? The #1 job of a nurse is to keep doctors from killing people.

[Jim Lane]

9. No, it's National Nurses Day -- not limited to RNs.

See [link: http://www.calendar-updates.com/info/holidays/us/nurse.aspx |this source], according to which the day kicks off National Nurses Week.

My mother was an RN but the holiday honors the LPNs, too.