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Toolkit assets for ANA Nurses Week 2024

Please join us in celebrating National Nurses Week, May 6-12! Each year, the American Nurses Association and we in the Chamberlain community recognize the invaluable contributions of not only the nation’s nurses but nurses all around the world.

National Nurses Week has undoubtedly evolved, dating back to 1953 when Dorothy Sutherland, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, proposed Nurse Day. Fast forward to 1990, when National Nurses Week was born. To read more on the origin of this week-long celebration, visit the American Nurses Association’s History of National Nurses Week interactive timeline. This year’s theme is Nurses Make the Difference, which ...

“... honors the incredible nurses who embody the spirit of compassion and care in every health care setting.”

Despite the global strife created by the pandemic, you silenced the detractors through sheer grit and compassion to serve your communities and provide the utmost quality of care for your patients. We recognize that caring for patients, especially during such a tumultuous time, is a sacrifice that most aren’t willing to make. But yet here you are—working endless hours, spending time away from family and friends while pursuing and helping others pursue their educational endeavors. We truly appreciate your tireless efforts to improve health across the globe.

Let’s not forget that your health also matters. Check out the Chamberlain University Nurses Week 2024 page, filled with messages of gratitude, free webinars to improve your personal and professional well-being, donation links, and more! We also have a research guide, Wellness in the Health Professions, that contains a curated list of resources on improving your well-being.

And if that’s not enough to feel inspired, check out these library books featuring heartwarming stories of nurses doing what they do best—helping people.

Cover ArtLearning to Heal by Jeanne Bryner (Editor); Cortney Davis (Editor); Judy Schaefer (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9781606353585
Publication Date: 2018
What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again and provide historical context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the same? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose, this book explores these questions with contributions by nurses from a variety of social, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds.
 

Cover ArtWhen Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession. by Suzanne Gordon (Editor)

ISBN: 9780801448942
Publication Date: 2010
The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses--and the people they serve. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care--including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here know that effective advocacy isn't easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public.
 

Cover ArtMasks, Misinformation, and Making Do by Wendy Welch (Editor)

ISBN: 9780821425022
Publication Date: 2023
The firsthand pandemic experiences of rural health-care providers--who were already burdened when COVID-19 hit--raise questions about the future of public health and health-care delivery. This volume comprises the COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Appalachian health-care workers.
 

Cover ArtMedicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School by Jim Kristofic

ISBN: 9780826360670
Publication Date: 2019
In this detailed history, Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Kristofic's personal connection with the community creates a nuanced historical understanding that blends engaging narrative with careful scholarship to share the stories of the people and their commitment to this place.
 

Cover ArtTaking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by M. K. Czerwiec

ISBN: 9780271079677
Publication Date: 2021
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward. A shining example of excellence in the treatment and care of patients, Unit 371 was a community for thousands of patients and families affected by HIV and AIDS and the people who cared for them.

 

Thank you for all you do, and we look forward to assisting you!