Operating Room Nurse Day
They're the backstage heroes of the medical world, ensuring everything runs seamlessly, patients are cared for, and surgeries are a success.
Celebrate and recognize operating room nurses with appreciation campaigns, recruitment messaging, and workplace wellness initiatives targeting healthcare professionals and HR decision-makers.
- Behind-the-scenes spotlight: A day in the life of an OR nurse
- Healthcare recruitment campaign: 'Join the heroes in the operating room'
- Employee appreciation: Recognition and wellness benefits for surgical nursing teams
- Educational content: The critical role of OR nurses in surgical success
The history of nursing dates back well over 2000 years. The Hippocratic Collection describes skilled care and observation of patients by “attendants” on several different occasions, which were most likely the first real nurses mankind has ever known. During later historical periods, both nuns and monks tended to provide nurse-like care to the sick.
Examples of this can be found in the histories of many religions, such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. Archaeologists have also discovered plenty of evidence suggesting humans have been performing various types of surgery for up to 9,000 years, with the earliest Egyptian surgical texts dating back to about 1,500 BC.
In 1989, the State Governor of Iowa, Terry Bransted, decided to help reward operating room nurses for all of their (often underappreciated) work and put through an executive order to establish an annual Operating Room Nurse Day.