The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) wants your inspirational stories on what it means to be a military nurse. STTI recognizes that military nurses share a common bond through their unique mission of caring for U.S. service members, who serve and protect the nation around the world, and their families. So, whether you are a nurse in the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy or National Guard, we want to honor your service through a website community where you can share your inspirational words with all military nurses, whether you are active duty, reserve or retired from service. 

How and where to sign up
Please visit www.militarynursebook.org to share your thoughts, pearls of wisdom, words of inspiration or short anecdotes that finish this sentence in 500 words or less: You’ll know you’re a military nurse when ...

STTI editors will select the most appropriate comments for publication later this year in You’ll Know You’re a Military Nurse When ..., a new edition of an inspirational series of books sharing funny, touching and heart-warming stories from nurses.

Excerpts from submissions
You’ll know you’re a military nurse when …

• You can crawl under barbed wire in the morning and don your dress uniform for a ball that evening. (Lois Borsay, an Army nurse who served in Landstuhl, Germany)

• A colonel chokes back tears as he tells you, “I will never be able to thank you for what you did for my guys.” (John Groves, an Army nurse who served in Baghdad, Iraq)

• You see “the look” in the eyes of a fellow military nurse—that quiet confidence of experience that says you are with a special group of people who know what’s at stake and will make a difference in the lives of our nation’s best. (Joseph Blansfield, an Army nurse who served in Iraq)

For more information or for technical, editorial or media inquiries, contact Paula Jeffers, 888.634.7575, paula@stti.iupui.edu. RNL