Perioperative Nurse Week

WHEREAS, perioperative nurses specialize in the care of patients immediately before, during and after surgical intervention; and

WHEREAS, serving in settings ranging from traditional hospital-based operating rooms to ambulatory surgical centers and physicians’ offices, perioperative nurses work to provide the safest care possible for surgical patients; and

WHEREAS, perioperative nurses assess individual patient needs prior to surgery, prepare a plan for the care a surgical patient will receive and prepare the operating room and patient for surgery; and

WHEREAS, surgical patients rely on the skills, knowledge and expertise of perioperative registered nurses, who uphold a long tradition of improving surgical safety and the quality of patient care; and

WHEREAS, Perioperative Nurse Week recognizes the contributions that perioperative registered nurses make to patient safety and the opportunities and challenges facing the profession:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby proclaim the week of November 5 through November 11, 2012 as

Perioperative Nurse Week

in the state of the Alabama.

 

Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 5th day of November 2012.

 

      

Robert Bentley, Governor