To: Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
Department or Agency Name(s): Department of Health Services
Staff Name and Phone Number: Tina Rivera, 707-565-4774
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, 2024 as National Nurses Week in Sonoma County.
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Executive Summary:
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, 1820. 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 2024 is Nurses Make the Difference, to honor the varying nursing roles as well as the positive impact nurses have on everyone’s lives.
Nurses within the Sonoma County Department of Health Services 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.
Prior Board Actions:
On April 18, 2023, the Board adopted a resolution proclaiming the Week of May 6 through May 12, 2018 as National Nurses Week in Sonoma County.
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.
Fiscal Summary
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Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Resolution
Related Items “On File” with the Clerk of the Board:
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