Happy New Year! Here’s the list of nursing recognition days, weeks, and months for 2016*. Please let me know if you know of others!

*Note that some dates are from 2015. I will update dates and links as they become available.

• National IV Nurse Day January 25
• National CRNA Week January 24-30

• PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week February 1-7
• Critical Care Transport Nurses Day February 18

• Certified Nurses Day March 19
• GI Nurses and Associates Week March 23-27 (2015)

• Radiologic & Imaging Nurses Day April 12
• Transplant Nurses Day April 15 (2015)

• National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month 
• Oncology Nursing Month 
• National Nurses Week May 6-12 (National Nurses Day is May 6)
• National School Nurse Day May 6
• National Student Nurses Day May 8
• International Nurses Day May 12
• National Nursing Home Week May 8-14
• Neuroscience Nurses Week May 15-21

• Vascular Nursing Week June 7-13 (2015)
• National Time Out Day June 10 (2015)
• National Nursing Assistants Week June 11-18 (2015)

• National Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day September 8
• Nephrology Nurses Week September 11-17
• National Neonatal Nurses Day September 15
• National Nurses in Staff Development Week September 18-24
• National Gerontological Nursing Week September 27-October 3 (2015)

• National Midwifery Week October 2-8
• National Pediatric Nursing Week October 3-7
• Emergency Nurses Week October 9-15 (Emergency Nurses Day is October 12)
• National Case Management Week October 9-15
• International Orthopaedic Nurses Day October 30

• Emerging Nurse Leaders Week November 1-7 (2015)
• Medical-Surgical Nurses Week November 1-7 (2015)
• Urology Nurses and Associates Week November 1-7
• Perioperative Nurses Week November 8-14 (2015)
• National Nurse Practitioner Week November 8-14 (2015)
• Forensic Nurses Week  November 9-13 (2015)