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With 2.7 million registered nurses in the United States,
it should come as no surprise that a full week is dedicated
to celebrating the nurse's contribution to society.
First observed in 1954, National Nurses Week begins
May 6 and ends May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday.
For a full history of National Nurses Week, visit www.nursingworld.org/pressrel/nnw/nnwhist.htm.
This site contains a promotion kit for Nurses Week to
help you get the word out, including a sample press
release, news article and letter to the editor.
Looking for a computer game to play with your children?
ThinkQuest is an educational project that offers students
and educators the opportunity to create and explore
Web-based learning materials. At http://library.thinkquest.org/20465/
games.html, you will find a fun "Connect the
Blood Type" game called Bloody Madness.
In this game, you are the doctor (or in our case, the
nurse) in charge of an ER. You receive multiple ambulances
of patients in need of blood transfusions. The transfusions
have to be matched and given before the time clock runs
out and a new load of patients arrives. If you don't
match the transfusions correctly, your patients die
and you get sued for malpractice.
If the blood transfusion game seems too much like a
real shift in the ER, you can try to impress your kids
with your skill at the genetics and molecular biology
games found at the same site.
Interactive Physiology [www.interactivephysiology.com/
demo/home/index.html] was designed for anatomy and
physiology students to help them understand rather than
memorize their topics. While many of the topics on the
site must be purchased, portions of the cardiovascular
tutorial are free.
Units on cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle
and blood pressure regulation begin with a list of education
goals and use Macromedia Shockwave to present animated
slides with corresponding narration. A variety of free
worksheet assignments on additional topics also can
be accessed.
International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world
May 12 each year. To support this observance, the International
Council of Nurses produces and distributes an International
Nurses Day theme kit [http://www.icn.ch/indkit.htm].
This year's theme is "Nurses: Fighting AIDS Stigma,
Caring for All." In the kit are a poster and an
information packet that includes understanding the stigma
of AIDS; statistics about AIDS; the different forms,
sources and consequences of HIV/AIDS-related stigma
and discrimination; interventional strategies to help
fight stigma and discrimination; check-off lists; and
an HIV prejudice test.
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