05/20/2026
May is National Nurses Month
In a hospital room, there is rarely time to pause. A patient dies; another needs to be discharged. Machines beep. Decisions stack up. Nursing moves forward.
The UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing is moving the needle to advance nursing, not just through clinical care, workforce training, research, education, but also reflection.
The Sue & Bill Gross Center for Nursing Philosophy creates space to ask what care really means and how it matters. The Center carves out space for something increasingly rare in modern healthcare: reflection – not as an abstract exercise but as a necessary part of understanding what constitutes nursing and what it could become.
https://nursing.uci.edu/2026/05/18/where-nursing-meets-its-deepest-questions/
In a hospital room, there is rarely time to pause. A patient dies; another needs to be discharged. Machines beep. Decisions stack up. Nursing moves forward. Mark Lazenby, Dean, Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing, photo: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine And nurses are left with questions that don’t fit nea...