Mayo hospital celebrates National Nurses Week

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The American Nurses Association (ANA) has marked May 6-12 as National Nurses Week.
This year’s theme is “Ethical Practice. Quality Care.” Mayo Regional Hospital will be celebrating National Nurses Week May 4–8 and is proud to support the many roles that nurses play in providing high quality care to the patients in the rural community.

    Mayo Regional Hospital’s designation as a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) is given to certain rural hospitals and is designed to reduce the financial vulnerability of those hospitals and improve access to healthcare by providing essential services in rural communities.
    Working as a nurse in a CAH can be both challenging and rewarding. Nurses in rural healthcare are often seen as the “Jack of all Trades” due to the lack of specialization in CAHs, but this does not mean “Master of None”. 
    CAH nurses master the art of caring for the members of their own communities. They are constantly faced with providing quality care to patients with limited community resources. Nurses in CAHs need to maintain a high level of competency to care for high risk patients even though they may not see the high risk illnesses as often as one might in a larger, more urban hospital.
    These challenges make it ever important for today’s CAH nurses to be mindful of the role of ethical practice in quality patient care. Join the hospital in thanking all its nurses for the important roles that they play in the community everyday.