***image1***National Nurses Week recognizes the impact nurses and medical technicians make to the lives and health of their patients. It is May 6 to 12 each year as a commemoration to Florence Nightingale, whose birthday is May 12. She was the founder of professional nursing and it was her performance as a nurse 150 years ago during the Crimean War that forever altered professional nursing. The changes she implemented in the care of the wounded in the spring of 1854 reduced the mortality rate from 42 to 2 percent. That pattern of excellent care continues today in military healthcare.
This year’s theme “Many roles, one profession” embraces the very nature of the military nursing profession. Military nurses and medical technicians go far beyond their civilian counterparts in their responsibilities and day-to-day activities. Not only do they perform their peacetime mission of ensuring the health and well-being of active and retired military personnel and their families. They also deploy at a moment’s notice to care for our troops downrange, often in austere conditions.
Nurses and medical technicians from the Army, Navy and Air Force stationed in the KMC are currently joined with deployed, active, Reserve and National Guard members to support this ongoing mission. They serve in the areas of aeromedical evacuation, contingency aeromedical staging facility, in the operating room, pre and post operations, emergency room, intensive care, inpatient medical-surgical, women’s health, pediatrics, outpatient specialty care, internal medicine and family practice as well as many military readiness and key leadership roles.
The benefit of military healthcare can sometimes be forgotten until it is needed most.
However, every one of us, at one time or another has felt the enormous impact that military nurses and medical technicians can have.
Nursing is not just a profession; some say it is a calling. It is an overwhelming desire to help others and care for the sick and injured, day and night.
There are nearly 2.7 million registered nurses in the states. As of November 2001, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected more than one million new nurses will be needed by the year 2010. Interestingly enough, military nursing organizations are not experiencing a nursing shortage.
To celebrate the week, the medical facilities in the KMC will be recognizing the great men and women in the nursing field. The 435th Medical Group holds a daily nurse trivia contest, give-a-ways and an afternoon barbeque on Thursday. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center recognizes nurses with an appreciation party at the Landstuhl Combined Club May 13.
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***image1***National Nurses Week recognizes the impact nurses and medical technicians make to the lives and health of their patients. It is May 6 to 12 each year as a commemoration to Florence Nightingale, whose birthday is May 12. She was the founder of professional nursing and it was her performance as a nurse 150 years ago during the Crimean War that forever altered professional nursing. The changes she implemented in the care of the wounded in the spring of 1854 reduced the mortality rate from 42 to 2 percent. That pattern of excellent care continues today in military healthcare.
This year’s theme “Many roles, one profession” embraces the very nature of the military nursing profession. Military nurses and medical technicians go far beyond their civilian counterparts in their responsibilities and day-to-day activities. Not only do they perform their peacetime mission of ensuring the health and well-being of active and retired military personnel and their families. They also deploy at a moment’s notice to care for our troops downrange, often in austere conditions.
Nurses and medical technicians from the Army, Navy and Air Force stationed in the KMC are currently joined with deployed, active, Reserve and National Guard members to support this ongoing mission. They serve in the areas of aeromedical evacuation, contingency aeromedical staging facility, in the operating room, pre and post operations, emergency room, intensive care, inpatient medical-surgical, women’s health, pediatrics, outpatient specialty care, internal medicine and family practice as well as many military readiness and key leadership roles.
The benefit of military healthcare can sometimes be forgotten until it is needed most.
However, every one of us, at one time or another has felt the enormous impact that military nurses and medical technicians can have.
Nursing is not just a profession; some say it is a calling. It is an overwhelming desire to help others and care for the sick and injured, day and night.
There are nearly 2.7 million registered nurses in the states. As of November 2001, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected more than one million new nurses will be needed by the year 2010. Interestingly enough, military nursing organizations are not experiencing a nursing shortage.
To celebrate the week, the medical facilities in the KMC will be recognizing the great men and women in the nursing field. The 435th Medical Group holds a daily nurse trivia contest, give-a-ways and an afternoon barbeque on Thursday. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center recognizes nurses with an appreciation party at the Landstuhl Combined Club May 13.