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State Celebrates Nurses Week

HARTFORD –– “Nurses Lifting Spirits, Touching Lives” is the theme for National Nurses Week, celebrated May 6–12. Gov John G. Rowland also proclaimed the week as Nurses Week in the State of Connecticut.

There are nearly 2.7 million registered nurses in the United States and 2.2 million are actively employed, according to the American Nurses Association. There are now more than 196,000 advanced practice nurses.

Nurses Week has been held annually since 1897 and coincides with the May 12 birthday of Florence Nightingale.

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