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 11 through November 15, 2013, as

Perioperative Nurse Week

in the state of the Alabama.