Why Do We Want To Honor Our Nurses? Are you a nurse? Pamper yourself — you deserve it. Do you know a nurse? Praise him or her — they deserve it. Do you work with nurses? Acknowledge their worth — they deserve it.

Have you ever been cared for by a nurse or has someone close to you ever been under a nurse's care? This is your opportunity to thank them. They have earned our recognition. Honor the nurses in your life now.

Nurses, generally speaking, are very friendly, compassionate and extremely accommodating, especially considering the circumstances under which they often work and some of the issues of patients and patient's relatives that they have to handle.

Nursing is an incredibly tasking profession, starting from the "bootcamp-like" college and university programs, to the sometimes daunting situations they have to face on the job. Nurses are the soldiers in the very forefront of fighting diseases in healthcare institutions and in our homes. They take the heat and the hits in various ways while caring for their patients. As most nurses know, many hospitals and clinics are actually "run" by nurses.

These wonderful people, who spend countless hours caring for the sick, comforting people in their final days on earth and helping to bring new life into the world, are often not rewarded adequately.

They are the "go betweens" for doctors and patients. They often catch a lot of misplaced aggression from the patients and their families since they are right there at the "forefront" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Today these valuable professionals are fast dwindling in numbers and deserve to be celebrated. This is a site to honor nurses worldwide.