Home Health & Hospice Week

• Don't forget to take a moment next month to recognize your nursing staff's efforts. National Nurses Week is May 6-12, accrediting body The Joint Commission reminds providers.

"National Nurses Week provides a special opportunity to thank the more than two million nurses throughout the United States who positively influence the lives they touch," says the Commission's Ann Scott Blouin, Ph.D., R.N. "As nurses, we work in many different settings and serve in many roles, but all of us share a single focus on keeping patients safe by providing quality care."

Ideas for celebrating National Nurses Week are at the American Nurses Association's Web site at http://nursingworld.org/NationalNursesWeek.