Reclaiming Nurses Week: A Preview

This year, to celebrate Nurses Week, we are not offering our nurses a simple “Thank You”—we are Reclaiming Nurses Week for the nearly 5.5 million NPs, RNs, and LPNs/LVNs who are considered the most trusted professionals in our workforce.

At Psych Congress Network, we are dedicated to not only ensuring our providers have the most current information on treating mental and behavioral health disorders, but also feel supported in their own mental and behavioral health struggles. We know that burnout impacts many health care workers and can take its toll both mentally and physically.

This Nurses Week we have put together a powerful video series to acknowledge not just the dedication of our nurses, but the struggles they face day in and day out caring for their patients. The COVID-19 pandemic did not just affect the health of our global population, it impacted the mental stability of our health care workers, and we want you to know:

We Hear You.

We Are Here For You.

In our upcoming video series, launching tomorrow, we will take you on a mental health journey through the lens of our nurses to identify the Problem, the Cause, and the Solution; highlight Mental Health and Wellness Initiatives; and, finally, offer an Open Letter of Support.

Psych Congress Network family, we implore you to share these videos with the nurses in your lives. The nurses in your practices, at your hospitals, in your family, and among your friends. Please, let these nurses know you support them; they provide the backbone of our health care system, and We Support Them.

It is an honor and privilege to bring you our video series: Reclaiming Nurses Week.

A special thank you to our Psych Congress Steering Committee Members, Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC, and Julie Carbray, PhD, FPMHNP-BC, APRN, for spearheading this initiative, and especially to Samantha Lau, MSN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, for the dozens of hours she has dedicated to this project to ensure our nurses have a voice.

Nurses do not need a bouquet of roses this week, they need to know we are working together to remove the thorns.

With gratitude,

Your Psych Congress Network Editorial Team