Nursing Awareness Days

National Nurses Week is the best-known time to honor nurses, but it is far from the only one. Nursing has been ranked the most trusted profession for more than two decades, and the calendar holds more than 50 awareness and recognition days spread across nearly every specialty. Use them to recognize the nurses in your life all year, and as a guide for when a gift will land. Save these dates.

Nursing Awareness Calendar

January

• 21-27: National Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week
• 25: National IV Nurse Day

February

• 4-10: PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week
• 6-12: Ambulatory Care Nursing Week
• 7: PeriAnesthesia Nurse Day
• 11-17: Cardiovascular Professionals Week
• 18: Critical Care Transport Nurses Day

March

• 17-23: Gastroenterology (GI) Nurses and Associates Week
• 18-23: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
• 19: Certified Nurses Day

April

• 7-13: Occupational Health Nursing Week
• 12: Radiological and Imaging Nurses Day
• 14-20: Wound Care Ostomy and Continence (WOC) Nurse Week
• 22-29: Transplant Nurses Week

May

• 1-31: National Nurses Month
• 1-31: National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month
• 1-31: Oncology Nursing Month
• 6: National Nurses Day
• 6-12: National Nurses Week
• 8: National School Nurse Day
• 8: National Student Nurses Day
• 12: International Nurses Day
• 12-18: National Skilled Nursing Care Week
• 12-18: Neuroscience Nurses Week

June

• 4: National Healthcare Recruiter Recognition Day
• 13: National Nursing Assistants Day
• 13-19: National Certified Nursing Assistants Week

July

No holidays this month.

August

No holidays this month.

September

• 1-7: National Clinical Nurse Specialist Recognition Week
• 8: National Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day
• 8-14: National Assisted Living Week
• 8-14: National Neonatal Nurses Week
• 8-14: Nephrology Nurses Week
• 8-14: Vascular Nurses Week
• 15-21: Nursing Professional Development Week

October

• 6-12: National Midwifery Week
• 7-11: Pediatric Nurses Week
• 8-12: Emergency Nurses Week
• 9: Emergency Nurses Day
• 13-19: National Case Management Week
• 20-26: International Infection Prevention Week
• 28-November 1: National Orthopaedic Nurses Week
• 30: International Orthopaedic Nurses Day

November

• 1-30: National Home Care and Hospice Month
• 1-30: National Hospice and Palliative Care Month
• 1-7: Medical-Surgical Nurses Week
• 1-7: Urology Nurses and Associates Week
• 3-9: Forensic Nurses Week
• 10-16: National Nurse Practitioner Week
• 10-16: Perioperative Nurses Week
• 14: Operating Room Nurse Day

December

No holidays this month.

Nurses carry heavy loads. A gift, a word of encouragement, or even a social media shoutout on one of these days is a small way to remind them the work is seen.