MDBCs 07 May 2025
Entry posted by sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 1376
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May 7th 2025 - Holidays and Observances
(click on the day for details)
- Christian feast day:
- Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
- Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)
- Radio Day, commemorating the work of Alexander Popov (Russia, Bulgaria)
Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details)
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Fun Observances
National School Nurse Day
The Wednesday between May 6 and May 12 of each year is National School Nurse Day, a day to celebrate and thank all school nurses that take care of children when they are at school.
The unofficial holiday was created in 1972 by the National Association of School Nurses, based in the United States. The day aims to recognize school nurses and acknowledge their role in the educational setting.
Ensure Well-Being of Children
School nurses are nursing practitioners usually affiliated with a school or an educational institution. School nurses are one of the first lines of medical professionals to ensure the health and mental well-being of school going children and young adults. They are also responsible for monitoring that children in schools are achieving their developmental milestones as well as ensuring that their lives outside the school are safe and healthy.
National Nurse Week
National School Nurse Day, also known as School Nurse Day, is celebrated during National Nurse Week, which runs annually from May 6 to May 12. May 6 is celebrated as National Nurses Day, while May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale is celebrated worldwide as International Nurses Day.
How to Celebrate?
- Thank your school nurse for taking care of you.
- Learn more about what school nurses do.
- If you have school-going children, help your children make thank you gifts or write thank you notes to their school nurse.
Did You Know…
...that Florence Nightingale is thought to be responsible for creating the foundation for modern day nursing? Known as The Lady With the Lamp, she opened the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in 1860, which was the world's first secular nursing school and remains one of the world's oldest schools to be still operational.
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With a party going full bore in the apartment above his, my friend could forget about getting any sleep. The next day, he spotted the offending party giver.
"Didn't you hear me pounding on the ceiling?" he asked.
The woman smiled pleasantly. "That's okay. We were making a lot of noise ourselves."
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I was leafing through one of my hunting catalogs when I found something that made me laugh. "Look," I said to my wife. "What I've always wanted: a camouflage toilet seat."
"Get it," she said. "Then you'll have an excuse for when you miss."
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The first time my son was on a bike with training wheels, I shouted, "Step back on the pedals and the bike will brake!"
He nodded but still rode straight into a bush.
"Why didn't you push back on the pedals?" I asked, helping him up.
"You said if I did, the bike would break."
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It never dawned on my brother and me just how small our hometown really is. But we found out when we drove past a marquee near the square.
It read "Support Our Troop."
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