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Deborah Heart and Lung Center Celebrates Nurses Week 2021

Today marks the beginning of National Nurses Week, a key annual  professional recognition that culminates on May 12, in remembrance of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nightingale is considered the founder of modern-day nursing in the United States.

In keeping with this year’s nursing week theme, Leading with Courage, Leading with Compassion, the Hospital has planned a series of recognition events for its nursing, and allied, staff.

“We are still reeling from the effects of the pandemic,” said Rita Zenna, RN, Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at Deborah. “As such we have, for the second year, scaled back our recognition ceremonies and activities. We also are not sponsoring our annual Nurses of the Year selection. All of our nurses should be recognized for their herculean efforts this past year. We could not possibly single out a handful of nurses for extra recognition.”

Zenna added that Nurses Week, however, would still be a celebratory week for staff, with plenty of daily activities planned, an outside luncheon, and recognition gifts.

“These are all small gestures to show our appreciation for all the hard work of our nurses during the past year. The nursing staff at Deborah is renowned for going over and above with our patients. That kindness, compassion and meticulous attention to superior bedside care continued despite COVID and the extraordinary demands placed on them. As we begin to round a corner, I remain grateful every day for the level of commitment that our nurses have shown. Not once did they ever relent on their core values. Deborah’s nurses truly have led with courage, and infused it all by leading with compassion.”

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