Nurses Week describes the week that is dedicated to acknowledging and honoring nurses for all their hard work and dedication.
Florence Nightingale's birthday is remembered on May 12. I recognize and celebrate the six chosen for the 2023 Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing. Congratulations! Go Florence!
As we celebrate National Nurses Week 2023, I think of the variety of nurses I see at UConn Health. Nurses do so much to provide direct patient care. Yours are hands and feet that are constantly serving and working. It’s an amazing calling.
The “blessing of the hands” is a yearly nursing tradition. It is a symbolic representation of how nurses deliver care and compassion and be a blessing to all the patients for whom they care. I usually say a “blessing of the hands” during the Nursing Excellence Awards Ceremony. It starts like this: “May these hands, these minds, these hearts, this nursing staff be blessed in the caring they provide.”
If you would like a little more “hands-on” blessing, I would happily come around your unit and offer a blessing for you! Please Voalte me or have your unit manager schedule a time for me to come by!
As we celebrate you awesome nurses, it is a privilege to work with you. Thank you for caring for patients so well, for partnering with so many staff to coordinate good care, and for helping me discuss when I need to process. Great work nurses! I hope you feel appreciated!
—Rev. Daniel D. Warriner, UConn Health Chaplain
For more information, contact: Rev. Daniel D. Warriner at dwarriner@uchc.edu, x3230, or via Voalte