Celebrating National Nurses Week 2025: Powerful Partners in Care: Transforming Health for All
May 6 - 12, 2025
Happy National Nurses Week! We celebrate the immense contributions that nurses worldwide and right across the street make to improving health outcomes for everyone: patients, families, and communities. We also recognize the incredible power of nurses as the largest health care workforce. Thank you for being a powerful partner in care!
We are pleased to offer a full week of activities and initiatives for all UMSON community members and UMMC nurses, in person, online, and on social media, in celebration of Nurses Week.
Get Prepped!
Nurses Week Email Signature Image
Show your Nurses Week spirit and your appreciation for Maryland’s nurses by adding our special image to your email signature. Click here for the image, then right click on the image and select "Save image as..." to save it to your computer. Then upload it to your email client’s email signature function.
Show Your UMSON Spirit on Monday, May 12!
Whether it's a T-shirt, hat, pin, or anything else, today we encourage you to sport your UMSON or University of Maryland, Baltimore swag. If you don't have anything UMSON- or UMB-specific, wear the color red! Take a pic of you, your friends, and/or your colleagues showing off your spirit, and tag us on Instagram or X @marylandnursing or include our hashtag #UMSON.
Highlights
Tuesday, May 6: Nurses Week Kickoff
- Baltimore: Graduate Nursing Association End-of-Semester Lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Room 150
- Baltimore: Ice Cream Social, noon - 1:30 p.m., UMSON Courtyard
- USG: Walk with Powerful Partners in Care,12:50 - 1:20 p.m., Meet in the Building I Lobby
- USG: Common Hour Cool-Off, 1 - 2:30 p.m., outdoor area between Building I and Building IV
- Online: Graduation Rehearsal,7:30 - 8:30 p.m., Online
Wednesday, May 7
- Baltimore: Pizza Pies-at-Large, 11:45 a.m., UMSON Lobby
- Baltimore and Online: Teaching Grand Rounds: Designing Effective Test Items, noon - 1 p.m., Room 460 or Online
- Baltimore: True Colors: Understanding Yourself and Others, noon - 1:30 p.m., Room 670
Thursday, May 8: Student Nurse Day
- Baltimore: Spirit Swag Giveaway, 8:15 a.m., UMSON Lobby
- Scavenger Hunt
Baltimore: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Living History Museum
USG: noon - 2 p.m., outdoor area between Building I and Building IV - USG: Pizza Pies-at-Large and Snag Some Swag, noon - 2 p.m., outdoor area between Building I and Building IV
Friday, May 9: Thank a Nurse Day
- Social: "Thank a Nurse" Challenge
Monday, May 12: Spirit Day
- Show Your UMSON Spirit!
- Baltimore: Graduate Nursing Association Sendoff, 7:30 - 9 a.m., Room 150
- USG: Graduation Packet Pick-Up, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Building I, Room 101C
- Baltimore: All-School Assembly and End-of-Semester Faculty and Staff Luncheon, 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Southern Management Corporation Campus Center Elm Ballrooms