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Supporting Nurses and Other Healthcare Workers

30 Thursday Apr 2020

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Next Wednesday, May 6, is the start of Nurses Week. Now, you may be asking yourself, shouldn’t this type of celebration start at the beginning of the week? It’s, of course, customary to commemorate these types of events on a Sunday or Monday, but this celebration is a bit different. Each year, Nurses Week takes place from May 6 to May 12, regardless of the day of the week, so the final day always lands on May 12, the birth date of Florence Nightingale, who is known as the Founder of Modern Nursing.

As the number of coronavirus cases continue to spread across the United States and impact the everyday lives of residents all over the world, we can’t think of a more appropriate time to recognize nurses putting their lives on the line to save others.

In the last month, Google released a video reporting that now more than ever before, people are looking for ways to help nurses and others involved in the medical community. To help answer this question, we have a few ideas to actively support our nursing community during this uncertain time:

  1. Donate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

The need for Personal Protective Equipment grows as we discover new COVID-19 cases. Sadly, we are seeing that many facilities are ill-equipped with the gear necessary to protect our nurses and healthcare workers from catching and spreading the virus. A group of doctors started a grassroots organization to determine which facilities are in most desperate need. Remember that supplies save lives. Visit their site to see if you can help.

  1. Send a Thank You Card

If you ever received extraordinary care from a nurse at a hospital or healthcare facility, we encourage you to let them know – even if it was years ago. Although many nurses might say that they were just doing their jobs, we, as patients, know that tender care can make all the difference in the world during times of ill health. Consider sending a thank you card or handwritten note expressing your gratitude. During this pandemic, nurses are working overtime and making a number of sacrifices in their personal lives to get through the present situation, so we would be willing to be a little appreciation would help boost their morale.

  1. Stay home (if you can)

It’s been 37 days since Wisconsin issued the “Safer at Home” order, and we know that many of us are coming down with cabin fever (ourselves included). Still, it’s critical to remember the origin behind stay-at-home orders. Right now, we need to ensure that hospitals can effectively manage the number of COVID cases. Although we all miss seeing our family and friends, we encourage you to continue limiting non-essential trips to keep our healthcare workers ahead of the virus.

We don’t know where we’d be at a time like this without the dedication of our hard-working nurses. To the nurses who wear their hearts on their sleeves, run nonstop throughout long, 12-hour shifts, and continuously put others before themselves, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Please stay safe out there!

Coronavirus remain a bit of a mystery to the medical community, but experts continue to learn more and more about coronavirus each day. Here at Lions Pride, we’d like to remind you to stay up to date with the latest information by visiting the CDC Website

October History and Special Events

02 Thursday Oct 2014

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Peanuts HalloweenHappy October! What is the first idea that pops into your mind when you think about the tenth month of the year? Halloween, of course, but there is so much more to the month than jack o’ lanterns, costumes and candy than many people realize We thought it would be fun to put together a list of all the events and anniversaries that occurred in October throughout the years:

October 1, 1908: Ford introduced the first Model T car

October 2, 1950: The first Peanuts comic was printed and appeared in seven newspapers

October 3, 1960: The Andy Griffith Show debuted

October 4, 1927: Sculpting begins on Mount Rushmore

October 5, 1921: The World Series was first broadcasted on the radio

October 6, 1889: Thomas Edison showed the first motion picture

October 7, 1916: Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University with a final score of 222-0, one of the most lopsided victories in American college football

October 8, 1957: The Dodgers announce that they will be moving to Los Angeles

October 9, 1888: The Washington Monument is officially opened

October 10, 1979: The Pac-Man arcade game is debuted

October 11, 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein describing the atom bomb

October 12, 1892: Children in US public school first recited the Pledge of Allegiance

October 13, 1775: The United States Navy is first established

October 14, 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is presented the Nobel Peace Prize

October 15, 1989: Wayne Gretzky became the all team leading scorer in NHL history

October 16, 1923: Walt Disney founded the Walt Disney Company

October 17, 1931: Gangster Al Capone is convicted of tax income evasion

October 18, 2014: Lions Pride will be awarding a Ray Hempel Fellowship at the 27-C1 convention in Wausau

October 18, 1925: The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee

October 19, 1985: The first Blockbuster store is opened in Dallas, Texas

October 20, 1803: The US Senate approves the Louisiana Purchase

October 21, 1854: The pioneer of nursing, Florence Nightingale is sent to the Crimean War with a staff of 38 nurses

October 22, 1797: The first recorded parachute jump takes place

October 23, 1946: The UN General Assembly gathered in New York for the first time

October 24, 1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the US is completed

October 25, 1936: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini created the Rome-Berlin axis

October 27, 1904: The first New York City Subway line opened

October 28, 1965: The St. Louis Gateway Arch is completed

October 29, 1863: The International Red Cross is created

October 30, 1960: The first successful kidney transplant is performed in England

October 31, 1892: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is first published

A lot of historical events happened in October. Which one surprised you most?

Source:

http://www.ducksters.com/history/octoberinhistory.php

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