Bill Text: NY J00231 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2023, as Nurses Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-01-18 - ADOPTED [J00231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-J00231-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 231

BY: Senator PERSAUD

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        May 6, 2023, as Nurses Day in the State of New York

  WHEREAS, It is the sense of this  Legislative  Body  to  memorialize
Governor  Kathy  Hochul  to  proclaim  May 6, 2023, as Nurses Day in the
State of New York, in conjunction with the observance of National Nurses
Day; and

  WHEREAS, May 6th is known as National Nurses Day, and  May  12th  is
the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing; and

  WHEREAS,  The  nearly  2.9  million  registered nurses in the United
States comprise our nation's largest health  care  profession  with  New
York State accounting for over 256,000 of those registered nurses; and

  WHEREAS,  The depth and breadth of the registered nursing profession
meets the different and emerging  health  care  needs  of  the  American
population in a wide range of settings; and

  WHEREAS,  The  American  Nurses  Association,  as  the voice for the
registered nurses of this country, is working to chart a new course  for
a  healthy  nation  that  relies  on  increasing delivery of primary and
preventive health care; and

  WHEREAS, A renewed emphasis on primary and  preventive  health  care
will  require  the  better utilization of all of our nation's registered
nursing resources; and

  WHEREAS,  Professional  nursing  has  been  demonstrated  to  be  an
indispensable   component   in   the  safety  and  quality  of  care  of
hospitalized patients; and

  WHEREAS, The demand for registered nursing services will be  greater
than  ever  because  of  the  aging  of  the  American  population,  the
continuing expansion of life-sustaining technology,  and  the  explosive
growth of home health care services; and

  WHEREAS,  More  qualified  registered  nurses  will be needed in the
future to meet the increasingly complex needs of health  care  consumers
in this community; and

  WHEREAS,  The  cost-effective, safe and quality health care services
provided by registered nurses will be an ever more  important  component
of the United States health care delivery system in the future; and

  WHEREAS,  Often  described  as  an  art  and a science, nursing is a
profession  which  embraces  dedicated  people  with  varied  interests,
strengths  and passions because of the many opportunities the profession
offers; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2023, as Nurses Day
in the State of New York; and be it further


  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.