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Nurses Week

  • VA celebrates nurses during National Nurses Week 2020

    VA celebrates nurses during National Nurses Week 2020

    This National Nurses Week, we salute the over 100,000 VA nurses who work tirelessly every day to serve our nation’s Veterans — and have continued to demonstrate their commitment and dedication throughout this historic global situation.

  • Now more than ever: A week to honor VA nurses

    Now more than ever: A week to honor VA nurses

    Nurses Week: VA is the leader of an organizational culture where excellence in nursing is valued as essential for quality health care for those who served America. This week we honor our nurses.

  • VA nurse gives a family the chance to say goodbye

    VA nurse gives a family the chance to say goodbye

    VA Nurse Karen Brodlo was dining in a favorite restaurant when an elderly woman stopped breathing. She performed CPR until the rescue team arrived. “I just did what was right. No accolades, please.”

  • Perceive, pursue and protect: VA nurse recognized with award for being an extraordinary

    Perceive, pursue and protect: VA nurse recognized with award for being an extraordinary

    A registered nurse at the VA’s outpatient clinic in McAllen, Texas, was recently recognized as a 2018 honoree and recipient of The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses.

  • Influence: A journey worth traveling; an immigrant’s dream to be a nurse in America

    Influence: A journey worth traveling; an immigrant’s dream to be a nurse in America

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

  • Influence: Ensuring access to treatment for Veterans, no matter the location

    Influence: Ensuring access to treatment for Veterans, no matter the location

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

  • Innovate: VA Spark – Seed – Spread Innovation Investment Program – Inform A Vet app

    Innovate: VA Spark – Seed – Spread Innovation Investment Program – Inform A Vet app

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

  • Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs celebrates nurses and their passion to serve

    Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs celebrates nurses and their passion to serve

    Nurses are angles who comfort and care, someone to lean on, the answer to prayers.

  • VA celebrates Nurses Week

    VA celebrates Nurses Week

    This week we celebrate a very special occasion, Nurses Week, [...]

  • Influence: Two nurses tell their stories of their deployment to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

    Influence: Two nurses tell their stories of their deployment to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

  • Innovate: A collaboration of nursing excellence at the Minneapolis VA health care center

    Innovate: A collaboration of nursing excellence at the Minneapolis VA health care center

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

  • Inspire: ICU nurse makes a last wish come true

    Inspire: ICU nurse makes a last wish come true

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

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