Care Has a Name: Nurse. Celebrating Nurses Week 2026 with B. Braun
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Every IV line placed. Every medication double-checked. Every patient reassured at 3 a.m. Care doesn’t happen in the abstract. It has a name — and most of the time, that name belongs to a nurse.
This Nurses Week, B. Braun* is proud to stand with the nursing community to honor that truth. For a company that has spent more than 185 years building tools nurses rely on every single day, Nurses Week isn’t just a calendar event. It’s a reflection of everything they’re built around.
It all began in 1839, when Julius Wilhelm Braun bought the Rose Pharmacy in Melsungen, Germany. What started as a small operation selling herbal remedies by mail has grown, over six generations, into one of the most influential medical technology companies in the world. For more than 185 years, B. Braun has shaped healthcare with a pioneering spirit and groundbreaking contributions, and today its portfolio includes more than 5,000 healthcare products across more than 300 subsidiaries in 64 countries.
B. Braun Medical Inc., headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a leader in infusion therapy and pain management, developing, manufacturing, and marketing innovative medical products and services to the healthcare industry. Key product areas include nutrition, pharmacy admixture, and dialysis. Globally, more than 64,000 employees live the company’s “Sharing Expertise®” philosophy — the idea that continuously exchanging knowledge with customers, partners, and clinicians is the key to improving care and lowering costs.
In other words: B. Braun’s entire operating philosophy is built on collaboration with the clinicians who use their products. That starts with nurses.
B. Braun’s commitment to nurses goes beyond making products that work in clinical settings — they want those products tested and validated by the nurses who use them. In September 2025, B. Braun Medical earned a nurse-led product certification from nurseapproved.health for its full IV Solutions portfolio not made with DEHP or PVC, Plastic Irrigation Containers, and Pip-Taz in DUPLEX® Drug Delivery System — a rigorous evaluation process that confirms products are tested and trusted by nurses for usability, workflow integration, and patient safety.
B. Braun’s IV bags are not made with DEHP or PVC, chemicals linked to cancer that have already been banned in children’s toys yet still appear in many IV bags. For nurses who handle these products dozens of times per shift, that distinction matters.
“For too long, healthcare companies overlooked how poorly designed tools and technologies contribute to nurse burnout, job dissatisfaction and rising turnover,” said Rebecca Love, MSN, RN, founder of nurseapproved.health. “Often, products intended to support nurses failed them, creating additional burdens instead — adding work rather than reducing it, disrupting workflows and ultimately taking time and focus away from patient care.”
B. Braun’s nurse-certified products products were designed with the opposite intent. The ready-to-activate DUPLEX system, for example, saves nearly four minutes per dose compared to traditional compounding while eliminating syringes and vials — fewer touch points means fewer chances for error.
Beyond products, B. Braun invests in nurse education in a tangible way. The company’s B. Braun e-University platform helps nurses improve clinical practice and patient care, offering on-demand and microlearning video courses covering infusion systems, IV fluids and irrigation, vascular access, drug preparation, pain control, and more — with continuing education credits available.
B. Braun also employs nurses directly in roles like Director of Professional Services, where registered nurses help hospital systems integrate new technology into clinical practice — asking the kinds of questions bedside nurses have always wanted answered, like whether bolus fluid rates should match updated pump capabilities.
“Small changes like that can make a huge impact,” says Timothy Kavanagh, BScN, MBA, RN, Director of Professional Services at B. Braun — a nurse himself, who made the move from bedside PICU care to helping hospitals integrate clinical technology into everyday practice.
This year, the American Nurses Association has chosen the theme “The Power of Nurses™” — amplifying nurse voices across America to drive change and ignite a new era in nursing. It’s a theme B. Braun understands deeply. The company has noted that global staff shortages make healthcare professionals the most valuable resource in hospitals, and that their most limited asset is time — which is exactly why every product they build is designed to give nurses more of it.
To every nurse reading this: your name is on every act of care you deliver. B. Braun sees that. This week and every week, they’re working to make sure the tools in your hands are worthy of the work in your heart.
Learn more about B. Braun’s nurse-focused solutions and careers at bbraunusa.com.
This article is sponsored by B. Braun Medical Inc. Nurse.org may receive compensation for featuring this content. All information has been independently verified.
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