It’s Nurses Week. The Theme for National Nurses Week 2019 is 4 Million Reasons to Celebrate — a nod to nurses’ sheer numbers and an open invitation to #ThankaNurse for enriching our lives and the world we live in.
4 Million Reasons To Celebrate
With over 4 million Registered Nurses in the USA, we have a lot to celebrate. Nursing is considered one of the ‘most trusted’ occupations with the highest honesty and ethical standards of any industry.
Nursing has changed a lot in the years since Miss Florence Nightingale. However, nurses still share similar values and commitment to those of Florence Nightingale.
Today’s nurses share similar values and commitment to those of Miss Nightingale:
- uphold a commitment to addressing many public health challenges to transform health care to focus on health and wellness, in addition to illness care.
- commitment to delivering culturally competent care and increasing diversity and inclusion in nursing.
- ground-breaking work as researchers, executives, educators and innovators on national and global initiatives.
Florence Nightingale
(12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
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She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow’s face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.
- She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers.
- During the Crimean war, Florence Nightingale gained the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” from a phrase in a report in The Times.
- In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
- International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
- The first trained Nightingale nurses began work on 16 May 1865 at the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary.
- Her social reforms include being a pioneer in the visual presentation of information and statistical graphics.[31]
- Improving healthcare for all sections of British society;
- Improving healthcare and advocating for better hunger relief in India;
- Helping to abolish laws regulating prostitution that were overly harsh to women;
- Expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce. – Wikipedia
How you can #ThankaNurse this Nurses Week
- Post #ThankaNurse or #ThankyouGypsyNurse to your social media pages to show your support.
- SHARE this article on your social networks to help us spread the word. #nursesweek2019
- If you have a nurse in your life, here are some great nurses week gift ideas
- Drop by your local hospital, clinic, or healthcare facility and simply say “Thank You” (cookies or candies never hurt).
- Support mandated Nurse:Patient Ratios.
- Share a photo of a nurse in your family.
