Here’s a glance at what’s happening this month, along with some resources for your learning and professional development.

Healthcare Observances

National Breastfeeding Month  
Theme: This is Our Why
 
World Breastfeeding Week                    
August 1-7, 2023
Theme: Enabling Breastfeeding: Making a difference for working parents
#WBW2023

• NCPD Rethinking Breastfeeding Management: A Patient-Centered Approach Based on New Guidelines
• NCPD Galactagogues and Lactation: Considerations for Counseling Breastfeeding Mothers
• NCPD Breastfeeding Infants in Women with Opioid Use Disorder

National Immunization Awareness Month          

• Global Vaccine Inequity

Psoriasis Action Month
#ThisIsPsoriasis
 
National Health Center Week                  
August 6-12, 2023
#NHCW23

Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
 
International Overdose Awareness Day 
August 31, 2023
Theme: Recognizing those people who go unseen            
#IOAD2023       

• Project Save Lives: A Hospital-Based Peer Overdose Intervention
• Minimizing Opioid Overdose Deaths

Nursing Events

• 41st Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Nursing Editors
• 2023 ARN Rehabilitation Nursing Conference     

 
See all events for 2023 here!

Anything missing? Please let us know in the comments!
Have a good month!