12/05/2021
❤️Your passion for our patients’ health is appreciated every day.❤️ Thank you for all you do❤️
12th May is -
INTERNATIONAL NURSING DAY :
This is named after Ms. Florence Nightingale (born on 12th May 1820-1910), also known as -
“The Lady With the Lamp,”
was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing.
Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War 1853 were foundational in her views about sanitation.
She established St. Thomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860.
Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19 and 20 centuries.
"A Lady with the Lamp.."
Florence believed that no man should die alone.
So every night, after the other staff had gone to bed, she would take her lamp and walk along the rows of patients.
She checked on each and every soldier.
She became known as
“The Lady with the Lamp”
and was such a comfort to the injured men that some of them even kissed her shadow as she passed.
"Lady with the Pie Chart"
After the war between England & Russia in 1853,
Florence returned to England.
Unfortunately, she had caught Fever and never fully recovered.
By age thirty-eight, she was often bedridden and barely left her house.
Even though she was in poor health the rest of her days, she didn’t let that stop her.
She just put down her lamp and took up writing and drawing pie charts.
Florence wrote more than two hundred books and pamphlets expounding the benefits of healthy diet, cleanliness, and fresh air in preventing disease.
And she put her love of mathematics to good use by making infographics to illustrate her data.
She used a sort of pie chart, which she called a coxcomb, to show the number of deaths, and more importantly, causes of death in the military hospital.
It clearly illustrated that many more soldiers died from preventable disease than from battle wounds.
Her clear presentation convinced the government that health standards in military hospitals (and then all hospitals) needed to be upgraded.
The world celebrated 200th birth year last year...
What a passionate visionary FLORANCE was...
We experience some such Florances in our life too - we remember one such angle NISHA RAUL of then Staff Nurse of Raheja Hospital Mahim !
TRILLIONS OF SALUTES TO ALL The NURSING STAFF !!