Use these Nursing Recognition and Health Awareness Calendars to highlight healthcare-specific days, weeks, and months during the year. Use the Nursing Recognition dates to promote your healthcare specialty and recognize professionals in other healthcare areas. Health Awareness dates bring attention to healthy life choices and specific diseases.
Professional Recognition Dates
Professional recognition dates are opportunities to recognize nursing professionals for their work. Nursing and related healthcare professional organizations sponsor many of these dates. These dates bring attention to contributions made by those in specific nursing and other healthcare work areas. Professional organizations use these dates as part of their efforts to promote their profession. Take advantage of these dates to celebrate the nursing and healthcare work performed by your co-workers, friends, and family members.
Health Awareness Dates
Many of these dates are promoted by health awareness foundations and organizations that wish to bring attention to specific health issues. These may be general health practices such as healthy eating, exercise, and other good health-related behaviors. Other dates focus attention on specific and sometimes obscure but devastating diseases. Foundations often use these dates to raise money to support research for cures or provide support to patients or their families.
Most health awareness foundations and organizations have multiple areas of focus:
- Medical Researchers – provide funding for the development of new treatments and cures,
- Healthcare Providers – support outreach activities by healthcare professionals,
- Patients and their Families – provide emotional and financial support,
- At-Risk Populations – promotion of disease awareness and preventative measures, and
- Legislative – lobby for government funding to support medical research and patients.
How the foundations and organizations prioritize their efforts depends on their chosen health issue or disease.