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Yeah . Hey Aloha tamps the nurses . I'm

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Colonel Prentice Price and I'm the

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chief nursing officer here at Tripler

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Army Medical Center . Like to take the

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time to wish you a happy nurses week

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2021 thank you for all your sacrifices

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and dedication and what you do for our

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patients . Each and every day nursing

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and the military have both historically

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been voted as the most trusted

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professions in the military and here as

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military nurses . We get the best of

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both worlds . Again , I'd like to thank

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you for all you do . This year's 2021

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themes . We have two things . We have

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the American nurses association theme

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at sell lead and innovate . And we have

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the defense health agencies theme of

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reliable , ready and unified . Yeah .

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It just means to me it's just a time to

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celebrate all of the things that nurses

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do that . We play a huge role in taking

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care of patients and keeping this

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hospital functioning in all ways .

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There's so many ways , pediatrics ,

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labor delivery , psychic surgery ,

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whatever . Yeah , we play a huge role

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taking care of patients . Yeah , nurses

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week to me means a celebration of the

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hard work that we put in day and day

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out . I think we don't need a nurse's

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week to be celebrated . But I think

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it's always nice to be acknowledged for

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the hard work that all the nurses here

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do , especially in this past year . I

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think it was a trying time for nurses

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especially . And I think we overcame a

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lot and it's nice to acknowledge that

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this is week means to me that we get to

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celebrate Are American heroes . The

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nurses who take care of our patients

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each and every day and that we just get

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to recognize the sacrifice . Our nurses

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work hard . They work a 24 hour

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operation um , and they take care of

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some very difficult patients . So

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nurses week is our time to let them

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shine and to genuinely show them

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appreciation for all they do each and

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every day for our patients . I think

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that nurses week for me is the time to ,

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to stop and to remember to encourage

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the young nurses when they make some of

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the same silly mistakes that I did and

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try to support them so that they'll

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have a wonderful career . So , nurses

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week is a moment where we all take a

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time to stop and reflect on what we

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actually do as nurses . It allows us to

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say thank you to those who have come

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before us and to pause and realize that

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we are going to have a hard road ahead

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of us , especially here with the

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pandemic nurses Week to me is being

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able to celebrate all the nurses who

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have come before will come after and

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the ones I currently get to work with

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that provides such great patient care

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definitely to get to shine light to a

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lot of stuff that people don't know the

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nurses do . Um and how much nurses

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actually do take care of people and

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help . To me , it just means

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celebrating just the unique role that

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registered nurses get to play in

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delivering health care to patients .

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Yeah , celebrating just the men and

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women at the hospital . They are nurses

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and just all that they do for our

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patients here . Happy nurses suite from

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labor and delivery . Happy nurses week .

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Have the nurses going from the

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emergency department . Happy

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nurses week from the ICU . Yeah .

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Happiness is we from 61 .

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How many nurses week from vagrant

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delivery .