Clinical Nurse Specialist Recognition Week
Clinical Nurse Specialist Recognition Week is held on September 1. This event in the first decade of the month September is annual. 
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Clinical Nurse Specialist Recognition Week (CNS week) is a Week-long celebration to honor and acknowledge the contributions of the 89,000 Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) in North America. CNS Week takes place annually from September 1-7. Each year, an appropriate theme is chosen for this event. For example, in 2023, it focuses on the theme of the NACNS 2024 Annual Conference, “Lead the Next Generation.”
CNS Week is a perfect time for CNSs to celebrate and bring attention to the role, and for hospitals and health care systems to pay tribute to the valuable part CNSs play in health care and healthcare delivery.
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) established National CNS Recognition Week in 2009 to commemorate and celebrate the birth of Hildegard Peplau, who was born on September 1, 1909. Dr. Peplau was a prominent nursing theorist whose landmark book, Interpersonal Relations in Nursing, emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation for nursing practice and today serves as the basis of the CNS role in health care.
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