United States: National Nurses Week in 2025 establishes May 6 through May 12 (International Nurse’s Day) to become the yearly observance that celebrates and recognizes the extraordinary work of medical caregivers providing care for both sick and healthy patients throughout every day of the year.
How to express gratitude?
Expressing gratitude for nurses’ selfless care and compassionate bedside skills should be extended beyond the limited period of one week or one day.
Thank-you notes, together with gratitude gifts for dedicated nurses, require messages and wishes that you can use to write in your thank-you cards.
Writing hand-drawn messages from these Nurses Day wishes will deliver endless appreciation to dedicated nursing staff who constantly exhibit exemplary caring behavior, nurse.org reported.
Nurses will continue to advance their work in the future, spanning 2025 through the present, while showing the constant presence of innovative thinking and dedicated work alongside resilience and deep empathy.
People need to understand the powerful daily influence nurses generate; thus, one needs to appreciate their essential work. Patient care provides inspiration, although it requires nurses to overcome numerous deep challenges.
Under present staffing conditions, nurses push beyond their limits to provide patients with both safety and compassion in their care.
According to Cara Lunsford, RN, Vice President of Community at Relias, “As nurses, we often expect our efforts to go unnoticed by our patients and their families,” nurse.org reported.
Furthermore, as Lunsford stated, “They are under immense stress, so it is understandable. This is why it’s even more important that our nurse managers and healthcare institutions step in and take the time to acknowledge personal sacrifices, the stress and trauma experienced, and the patient advocacy and care.”
Expressing gratitude towards nurses both understands their efforts and independently establishes their value.
Virginia Garcia Organization urges you to mark nurse recognition days on your schedule and spread the information to your colleagues and your healthcare team, including managers and administrators, to help design their recognition system for 2025.