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Events highlighting Nurses' Week to begin May 7 by Heather Woolwine Public Relations Each year, May 6 - 12, National Nurses’ Week commemorates the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. At MUSC, employees, staff and physicians simply could not do their jobs in providing first-rate patient care without the efforts, compassion, and skills of so many able women and men in nursing. To highlight the contributions that MUSC nurses make throughout the year, several events are planned beginning May 7.   The National Nurses’ Week committee at MUSC offers the following events as opportunities for acknowledgment and appreciation of one of health care’s most valuable assets, and all are invited to attend. The MUSC Nurse of the Year ceremony: On Monday, May 7 all MUSC and UMA nurses, faculty, friends, and staff are invited to attend the ceremony beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Storm Eye Institute Auditorium. The MUSC Nurse of the Year will be announced, as well as all unit winners, followed by a reception. At noon Barbara McLean, R.N., a clinical nurse specialist, speaker and author with almost 30 years critical care experience, will deliver the event’s keynote address. An educational and organizational fair will take place from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 8 in the Children’s Hospital lobby. The Nurses Craft Fair will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 9 in the Children’s Hospital lobby and will display and sell works of art and skill designed by MUSC nurses. Volunteer nurses will participate in a Habitat for Humanity building project. For more information about participating in this great opportunity to give back to the community in a different way than nurses usually do, contact Kris Douglas, R.N., Nurse Alliance chair-elect, at douglask@musc.edu. On Friday May 11, from 9:15 a.m. to noon, nurses are invited to attend the Nursing Excellence Day Open House on eighth floor of the Storm Eye Institute Auditorium. The clinical scholar nursing fellowship will be announced, as well as recognition of new clinical nurse leaders, new graduates, and newly certified nurses. Drop in at any time to share in refreshments and learn about best practice at MUSC. On Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.m., “Florence Nightingale” will deliver birthday cakes to Medical Center units as part of “Florence’s Traveling Birthday Party.”     Friday, May 4, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.