Year 2010 is the International Year of the Nurse and it also marks the centennial year of the death of the founder of modern nursing — Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). She was an English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence during the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing, and was dubbed “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night to tend injured soldiers. Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas’s Hospital in London.
There will be series of events all throughout year in line with the celebration. A group has been established to actively involve the world’s nurses which would reach to be approximately more than 15 million, in a celebration of commitment to bring health to their communities, locally and worldwide.
Nurses has contributed so much in the community and without them, health care would be chaos. They face a lot of challenges and even sacrificed a lot of personal things just for the sake of their patients. In time of sickness, nurses are those people who can render ample strength for your weak body. Thus being a professional nurse is one of the most noble professions all over the world.
Courtesy: NJA
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