Thanks for Making a Difference Everyday!

As you know, Nurses Week is a nationally designated time to reflect on the many contributions nurses make to our healthcare system. So this year, thinkaboutitnursing / Publishing Concepts, along with co-sponsoring hospitals and corporate partners, instituted a new tradition to honor nurses collaboratively with some fun activities around the state, including a NW Arkansas Naturals baseball game in Springdale, an Arkansas Twisters football game, and an Arkansas Travelers baseball game in Little Rock.

“Nursing is a profession of self-sacrifice. It takes a special person to care so much as a nurse,” says Publisher Virginia Robertson of Publishing Concepts. “We look for ways to honor that commit-ment and celebrate with them; so naturally, Nurses Week affords us that opportunity.”

2007 Compassion Award winner Patrick Stage, an APN for Little Rock Cardiology, served as Honorary Captain at the Twisters game and threw out the ceremonial first pitch during the Travelers game.

Singing the national anthem was: Tera Thompson, a student from the U of A Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the Naturals game; Peggy Kirk, Director of CV Nursing from St. Vincent Health System at the Travelers game, and Christi Wardlaw, Nurse Manager at Arkansas State Hospital at the Twisters game.

Thanks to our co-sponsors and everyone who participated along with special thanks to our retail partners who offered discounts to licensed nurses during the month of May: Blue Coast Burrito, Cunningham Photography, McCain Mall, Northpoint Nissan, Pleasant Ridge Town Center, and Tropical Smoothie.

See you again next year for a bigger and better celebration! For more photos from the events, go to www.thinkaboutitnursing.com.

Thinkaboutitnursing / Publishing Concepts is a leading publisher of healthcare magazines, including 19 nursing publications across the U.S.

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