The students at Global Institute of
Business Studies in Bangalore have a lot to inspire them when the international
days are celebrated each year. Along
with the nursing profession, teaching and babysitting are some other
professions where you need a lot of tenderness and commitment. Humanitarian
tasks to relieve suffering and bring smiles would be filled with merits in
spiritual terms. The legacy of Florence Nightingale remains with us, though she
was born almost two centuries ago on 12 May 1820. Serving in the Crimean War of
the 1850s, she taught lessons to humanity while caring for the wounded
soldiers.
The immortal salute to Florence continues
on an annual basis after the International Council of Nurses started the custom
in 1974, a thoroughly well deserved recognition for a life well spent. In her
footsteps walk the hundreds and thousands of nurses who make up the core of the
healthcare profession. Doctors, hospitals and nursing homes would be lost
without the sincere duties of the nurses. No robot could replace the nurse with
the feelings and sentiments towards the sick and the suffering. It is truly a
life dedicated to relieving sorrow and suffering and may be compared to the
life of the nun who has withdrawn from life to remain in the shadow of god.
Florence achieved more after the Crimean
War. She was stationed at the Barrack
Hospital in Scutari and reformed the nursing and healthcare services. In 1860,
she opened the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas Hospital in London.
Consider the themes of the two years, 2017 and 2018. ‘Nurses: Inspire,
Innovate, Influence’ for 2018 and ‘Nursing: A Voice to Lead – Achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals’ for 2017.
Celebrating the spirit of International
Nurses Day
America and Canada celebrate the
International Nurses Week that culminates on 12th May. Don’t you think that
those hardworking nurses truly deserve to be so honored? A series of community
events like seminars and competitions celebrate the grand occasion and the gift
of god that are nurses with their soft corner for suffering people. Gifts and
flowers express the sentiments very well and healthcare centers do a lot of
celebrating in honor of the nursing community.
Family and friends get together and
dinners are organized, particularly within the medical fraternity. Nurses being
the extended arm of doctors, they must work hand in glove for the success of
their mission. As caring as nurses are the doctors themselves too, who have
opted like the nurses to relieve human and animal suffering. Like the two hands
that must come together to clap or hold, nurses and doctors must work in unison
for the success of the great mission.
Hardships of the nursing profession
While many colleges exist to train the
nurses, the compulsory night duty makes it difficult for many nurses. Traveling
up and down the city streets at night would be dangerous and inconvenient too.
It is not always urban centers but also remote hospitals far in the woods or remote
villages where nurses may have their duties. Night duties have to be faced
almost in every profession and ways and means would have to be found to make it
possible. Physically too, night studies are strenuous and it is fine at a young
age for nurses.
Men do join the nursing duties too, but
the tender care and patience is better delivered by the girls just like the
best primary school and Montessori teachers are women. It is the gentle touch
of the female that stirs the hearts and souls of the patients just like the
toddlers in school and bring healing. Have
you not heard it said that medicine alone is not enough to bring a cure? The
healing touch is needed and the nurses deliver that graceful feeling and a few
words of encouragement besides feeding the patients with the tablets and the
solutions.
Universal healthcare services depend upon
nurses
Whether it is a small neighborhood doctor
or a grand health facility in the city, nurses form the foundation for
healthcare. Perhaps some nurses work without uniforms or college training.
Indigenous healthcare too is delivered by those who know the trade like the
traditional midwives who possess the training through the family members.
In village societies, while men went to
work and fought wars, the women would enter the forest and discover the herbal
remedies. As a result, the women learned the art of traditional healing and a
fundamental understanding of nursing would be needed for nurses to practice
too. Nurses do understand the basics of medicine and the daily experience
introduces them to many trade secrets.
The nurses moving silently through the
hospital wards in white, blue or pink uniforms are a reminder that god is
present and will heal the suffering. May the nurses be blessed and appreciated
by the students of Global Institute of Business Studies.
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