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Every year , May 13th and it coincides

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with Florence , Florence Nightingale

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birthday . So every year , around this

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time Nurses Week , the very end of

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Nurses Week , we celebrate the Navy

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Nurse Corps birthday and this happened

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to be the 115th Navy Nurses happy 115th

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birthday . You guys look amazing . What

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we want to do is we want to highlight

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all our nurses . We do that by having

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some guest speakers . We had an awesome

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guest speaker today as the Chief Nurse

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Officer , I say a few words of

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encouragement for our nurses and then

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we have cake , we could do the cake

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cutting and usually the oldest nurse

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would be me and the youngest nurse will

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cut the cake .

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Walter Reed has the most amazing nurses

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that I've ever worked with . Very

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resilient . Tenacious . They bounce

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back . We've been through a lot with

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COVID . We've been through a lot with ,

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we've been through a lot with R V and

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now we're facing a severe nursing

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shortage . The nurses here are

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resilient and they will not fail our

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patience . They do whatever they have

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to do . So I want to thank them . I

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want to thank them for everything that

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they do for our patients , for each

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other . And for this organization .