Medicine:Respiratory Care Week

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Respiratory Care Week is a week set to honor and recognize respiratory therapists. Respiratory Care Week is celebrated internationally but most notably in Canada and the United States . Respiratory Care Week is usually the last full week of October.[1] United States President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first week dedicated to honoring respiratory therapists in 1982. Originally November 7 through November 13, 1982[2][3]

Previous dates

  • 1982: November 7 — November 13
  • 1983: September 15 — October 1
  • 2011: October 23 — October 29

last full week of October (Sunday through Saturday)

See also

  • International Nurses Day

References

  1. ↑ Respiratory Care August 1997 Volume 42, Number 8 pg. 748—817
  2. ↑ United States President Ronald Reagan — Proclamation 5095 — National Respiratory Therapy Week, 1983, September 15, 1983
  3. ↑ Ronald Reagan: "Proclamation 4997 - National Respiratory Therapy Week," November 10, 1982. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=41974.




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