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2002 News

AUSTIN AND THE COUNTRY CELEBRATE NATIONAL NURSES WEEK--May 6-12

"Nurses Care for America" is this year's theme for National Nurses Week, celebrated May 6-12 each year. National Nurses Week begins May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday. These permanent dates enhance planning and position National Nurses Week as an established recognition event. As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually, as well.

The Texas Nurses Association District 5 will sponsor a banquet on Friday May 10 at 5:30 at the Capitol Marriott. During this celebration 5 outstanding nurses in the seven county area surrounding Austin, the Fabulous Five, will be introduced. In addition, the Nurses of the year selected at area health care facilities will be presented. Join with fellow nurses, their friends, and family to celebrate nurses and nursing.

In 1854 Florence Nightingale took 38 women to Turkey to nurse wounded and sick British soldiers in the Crimean War. This was the first time the government had allowed women to do this. Almost all modern nursing systems and techniques we know today can be traced back to her. She suffered from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) for the rest of her life. She became not only the first modern war nurse and nurse commander but its first documented psychological casualty (sited from Country Joe McDonald's Tribute to FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE).