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Health & Safety, History

National Nurses Week – From the Red Cross Archives

by Nicholas Lemesh May 13, 2015December 1, 2017

National Nurses Week celebrates nurses and their role in society. Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 and ends May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nightingale, a nurse who treated wounded …

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Spotlight on National Nurses Week

by Sarah Layton May 13, 2014December 1, 2017

Across the United States and even across the world, American Red Cross volunteer nurses are an integral and celebrated component of Red Cross operations. National Nurses Week is a perfect …

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History

From the Archives: National Nurses Week

by Amanda Browe May 6, 2014December 1, 2017

May 6 – May 12, 2014 is National Nurses Week! To honor all Red Cross nurses, past and present, we offer a look at American Red Cross nurses throughout our …

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Nurse Assistant Training Provides Pathway to a New Career

by Kristiana Almeida March 3, 2014December 1, 2017

This post is from Jai Nassim While most people were dreaming of tropical weather, I plunged deeper into the Polar Vortex this winter on a trip to Ohio for a …

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Happy National Nurses Week!

by Erin Ferris May 10, 2012December 1, 2017

“Nursing is an art, and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work, for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body? Nursing is one of the Fine Arts; I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”
~ Florence Nightingale

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Disaster, Volunteers

Red Cross CSI Units

by Wendy Harman May 10, 2011December 1, 2017

Nurse and Red Cross volunteer Sue Hasmiller shares an intimate account of her service in Alabama.

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Disaster, Volunteers

Pretty Bad Things

by Wendy Harman May 10, 2011December 1, 2017

An insider’s look at the response in Alabama from nurse and Red Cross volunteer Sue Hasmiller.

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Disaster, Volunteers

Duty Calls

by Wendy Harman May 10, 2011December 1, 2017

I have worked there for 14 years and in that time have spent time away during 9/11, Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, the four hurricanes that hit Florida at the same time, hurricane Floyd in NJ, and now this monster in Alabama that has no name. I don’t serve this way often, but every once in a while there is something so significant that I can’t ignore it.

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Jada Pinkett Smith and the Red Cross Nurses

by Wendy Harman June 24, 2010December 1, 2017

You can help out too by joining the HawthoRNe Facebook Cause. HawthoRNe is matching each person who joins the Cause with $1 up to $10,000.

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Health & Safety

Ask the Expert: Chief Nurse Sharon Stanley

by Wendy Harman January 8, 2010December 1, 2017

Our Chief Nurse Sharon Stanley will be answering any questions you have about H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccinations. She’ll be available for this live online chat right here on our blog.

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