Nurses Week, May 6 - 12, 2005
Logan Regional Medical Center and Guyan Valley Hospital celebrate National Nurses' Week - May 6 - 12, 2005

National Nurses' Week opens each year on May 6th, marked as RN Recognition Day and Traditional National Nurses Day, and ends on May 12th the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of Nursing as a modern profession. This traditional observance is celebrated each year by over 2.7 million American registered nurses which is the largest health care profession.

This year's national theme is 'Touching Lives One Person at a Time'. This is what nurses do - they touch lives every day - one person at a time. This is quite a responsible task when you stop to consider that each time a nurse touches one life he or she is actually touching hundreds of lives. Touching one life is like dropping a pebble into a placid lake and watching the circles radiate outward at 360° - each circle is larger than the last - and it encompasses everything. That everything being the complete care of the patient - their medications, the patient's concerns or worries, the communication to the physician on the patients current condition and symptoms, and the family and friends of the patient. The nurse takes care of all these things and more with an assured demeanor and a smiling, friendly face regardless of the odds they may be facing with that particular patient.

To all nurses, particularly our nurses here at Logan Regional Medical Center and Guyan Valley Hospital, we honor you as individuals and as professionals. We appreciate your tireless work through the many roles you perform as a nursing professional: critical care, pediatric, maternity, surgical, emergency department, staff nurses and more. To this end, we are honored to have you as our nurses.