National Nurses and Hospital Week
May 7-13 2023
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, 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. And as of 2003, National School Nurse Day is celebrated on the Wednesday within National Nurses Week (May 6-12) each year.
National Hospital Week is an opportunity to highlight our hospitals, health systems and health care workers and the innovative ways they are supporting and connected to their community.
Why We Celebrate:
- To recognize the 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, and others who provide care to their community.
- Our caregivers have taken on unimaginable challenges and have risen to the occasion repeatedly.
- We think it is essential that others see the impact hospitals have made on communities, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.