The Oregon Nurses Association extends our deepest, heartfelt thanks to each and every member of our state’s nursing profession.
During National Nurses Week, May 6-12, we honor the work of every nurse in keeping our communities healthy and safe.
This past year has shown every Oregonian how brave, committed, professional, and compassionate you are; in the face of an unprecedented health crisis, nurses have stepped up to the challenge and saved lives.
Nurses, this is your time. Never in history has the world been so focused on the profession of nursing. You have proven to be compassionate, innovative, and resilient in the face of the biggest public health crisis of this century. The American Nurses
Association (ANA) Enterprise joins with the World Health Organization and global colleagues in extending the Year of the Nurse and Midwife into 2021 because of the impact of the pandemic.
Recognizing the challenges ahead, it’s important to look for opportunities to inspire, infuse leadership, and foster innovation in the months ahead.
ONA Nurses Week Events
- Individual bargaining unit celebrations (check with your labor representative or nurse leadership to see what is planned at your facility
- Facebook live re-broadcasts revisiting a range of important topics and discussions focused on the crucial role that equity plays in health care. Stay tuned to Facebook for these re-broadcasts or visit the ONA website here to see the videos at your leisure.
- A statewide campaign with full-page ads honoring nurses who have served our state with such compassion and bravery! Watch the following newspapers to see ONA’s full-page shout out to you and your nursing colleagues: Portland Tribune, Eugene Register
Guard, Medford Mail Tribune, Ashland Daily Tidings, LaGrande Observer, East Oregonian, Bend Bulletin, Central Oregonian, Beaverton Valley Times, Forest Grove News-Times, Hillsboro News-Times, Corvallis Gazette
Times, and the Tigard/Tualatin/Sherwood Times
ONA Nurses Week CE Course: Institutionalized & Structural Racism: An Overview
ONA is proud to present ONA’s CE, "Institutionalized & Structural Racism: An Overview."
This presentation conveys the breadth of institutionalized racism in Citizenship, Housing, Environment, Education, Employment, Healthcare, Criminal Justice, and Marriage in the United States. It offers key examples that demonstrate the depth of inequitable laws, policies, and procedures that form institutionalized discrimination and result in disparities in organizational outcomes.
Presented by Dr. Michelle Maher, an international speaker on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) who has taught DEI coursework for professional organizations and on the graduate and undergraduate level since 1994. Dr. Maher's work focuses on the forms of institutionalized discrimination and the awareness, skills, resilience and transformation needed for social justice and parity to be achieved. She is a former Visiting Assistant Professor at Lewis & Clark College and a Syracuse University Fellow. Participants can earn 1.5 nursing continuing professional development contact hours.
The course can be found on OCEAN, ONA's online CE platorm: www.oregonrn.org/onlinece
Oregon Proclamation of Nurses Week
Signed, sealed, and delivered! Governor Kate Brown has declared May 6-12, 2021 Nurses Week to thank Oregon nurses for your ongoing "courage, compassion, dedication, and leadership in caring for our impacted communities, at great risk and personal sacrifice," during COVID-19 and every day.
ANA Nurses Month Webinar
ANA is providing a Nurses Month Webinar: "Redefining Nursing — Reaffirming Our Practice" for free on May 19, 2021.
ANA Nurses Month Events
Week 1: Self-Care (May 1-7)
During this first week of ANA’s Nurses Month, we hope you take a moment (or more) to pause and consider what you need for yourself and your well-being. Activities this week will help provide ideas, tips and inspiration to fine-tune or jump start a plan
that focuses on the emotional and physical well-being of yourself and others through engagement of healthy activities that focus on both your body and mind.
Week 2: Recognition (May 8-14)
Now more than ever, it is important to raise the visibility of the critical work nurses do by honoring nurse heroes, innovators and leaders. The second week of Nurses Month recognizes nurses past and present. This week includes activities, stories and tributes to commemorate all that nursing has done for health care.
Week 3: Professional Development (May 15-21)
The free Nurses Month Webinar on May 19 will focus on the Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice,
4th Edition.
Week 4: Community Engagement (May 22-29)
Help promote nurses’ invaluable contributions by engaging virtually or in-person with your community, educating them on what nurses do, and encouraging them to support current and future nurses. More information and resources will be posted and available online here during the week.
