To: County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors
Department or Agency Name(s): Department of Health Services
Staff Name and Phone Number: Tina Rivera, 707-565-4774; Siobhan MacIver, 707-565-4597
Vote Requirement: Majority
Supervisorial District(s): Countywide
Recommended Action:
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Adopt a Gold Resolution proclaiming the week of May 6 through May 12, 2023 as National Nurses Week in Sonoma County. (Countywide)
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Executive Summary:
The Sonoma County Department of Health Services (hereinafter, “DHS”, or “the Department”) is proposing to proclaim National Nurses’ Week from May 6th through May 12th. Since 1974, May 6 through May 12 has been recognized in the United States as National Nurses Week, acknowledging all nurses and honoring Florence Nightingale who was born on May 12. When the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors designates this time as National Nurses Week in Sonoma County, it emphasizes the importance of county nursing staff who are integral to assessing the health of communities and leading some of the most vulnerable populations to improved physical and mental health.
Discussion:
The theme for National Nurses week in 2023 is You Make a Difference, to honor the varying nursing roles as well as the positive impact nurses have on everyone’s lives.
Nurses within the DHS provide health assessment, education, and linkage with community resources to a diverse population of clients with varied health, social, and economic strengths and needs. They serve in a variety of community settings including homes, offices, behavioral health sites, human services facilities, and emergency and homeless shelters as the need arises.
In correctional facilities for youth, nurses provide clinical services including, but not limited to, medication delivery, physical examinations, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, immunization assessment, and provision of education and coordination of care for diagnostic and specialty services.
Nurses help identify, investigate, and control communicable diseases, working closely with medical offices, schools, institutions, and challenged populations.
Nurses serve in homes to improve families’ parenting skills, prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences, support the practice of healthier and safer behaviors, and provide access and support for continued use of needed physical and mental health care resources to improve short and long-term health outcomes.
Nurses provide expertise to numerous community groups and providers to assure breadth and depth of services. Nurses are an integral part of how the county cares for and gains essential knowledge and insight about its residents. In the 2022 Gallup Poll, for the 23rd consecutive year, the public rated nurses as the most honorable and ethical of all healthcare professionals, underscoring the deep trust the public has in nurses.
The Department currently employs 61 nurses (41 in the Public Health Division and 20 in the Behavioral Health Division). These nurses make important and lasting contributions to healthy families and communities. Sonoma County values their contribution and recognizes the exemplary service of the professionally trained nurses who serve within this community.
Prior Board Actions:
On April 30, 2019 the Board adopted a resolution proclaiming the Week of May 6 through May 12, 2018 as National Nurses Week in Sonoma County.
On May 8, 2018 the Board adopted a resolution proclaiming the Week of May 6 through May 12, 2018 as National Nurses Week in Sonoma County.
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Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Resolution
Related Items “On File” with the Clerk of the Board:
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