Nat'l Nurses Week

[Pennie 26]

National Nurses Week is celebrated May 6 -12, 2004. This is always celebrated on the same time every year. it begans on Mother's Day & ends on Florence Knightgale B'day. The theme for 2004 is "Embracing Our Hertiage"

Below is a little bit of facts:

Did you know....

* As of November 2001, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that more than one million new nurses will be needed by the year 2010. The report projects that total employment will increase by 22.2 million jobs during the 2000-2010 period, rising to 167.8 million. Health care practitioners and technical occupations are expected to account for 1.6 million new jobs during that period. Registered nurses, which represent the largest occupation in this group, should account for more than a third of those new jobs.

 

* The nation's registered nurse (RN) workforce is aging significantly and the number of full-time equivalent RNs per capita is forecast to peak around the year 2007 and decline steadily thereafter, according to Peter Buerhaus of Vanderbilt University's nursing school. Buerhaus also predicted that the number of RNs would fall 20 percent below the demand by 2010. (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 14, 2000)

 

* Research indicates that advanced practice nurses can provide 60 to 80 percent of primary care services as well as or better than physicians and at a lesser cost.

 

To see other facts, Nurses history, gifts & more look at Nurse Gifts

I liked www.AHCA.org, other sites you may want to check out are:

www.gopromos.org & www.postivepromotions.com Do a search for National Nurses Week lots of sites out there.