Nurses are superheroes who change the world

Мета: розширити знання студентів про історію медсестринство та її основоположницю Флоренс Найтінгейль, сприяти розвитку комунікативної компетентності, виховувати гордість та любов до обраної професії.

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“Lo! in that hour of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room..."
Henry W. Longfellow

Video: I am a nurse

1. Good afternoon! We are glad to see you at our life journal  “Nurses are superheroes who change the world” which is devoted to nursing profession and the founder of modern nursing - Florence Nightingale.
2. Nurses are skilled professionals who help doctor in treating of patients. They are basis of all health care system. They accompany us constantly: in birth, in illnesses and recovering and in the last minute of our life.  

1. They not only help us to recover and stay fit, they also support us, motivate us, and teach us…Their lives are devoted to people.
2. The Pandemic COVID-19 has chanced society’s attitude to this profession. They have become indispensable on all fronts of fighting against all diseases. They become superheroes who change the world.

1. But this was not always the same way. Let’s have a look on brief history of nursing profession.

History of nursing.(виступ викладача історії медсестринство)

1. What do we know about Florence Nightingale? She was the second of two daughters born, during an extended European honeymoon, to William Edward and Frances Nightingale. (William Edward’s original surname was Shore; he changed his name to Nightingale after inheriting his great-uncle’s estate in 1815.). It was a well-to-do family. Florence was named after the city of her birth.
2. She was very smart child. Her father took particular interest in her education, guiding her through history, philosophy, and literature. She excelled in mathematics and languages and was able to read and write French, German, Italian, Greek, and Latin with ease. Never satisfied with the traditional female skills of home management, she preferred to read the great philosophers and to engage in serious political and social discourse with her father.

1. Her parents expected her to marry and have a family. But Florence did not want a meaningless life. She was chiefly interested in taking care of poor people in hospitals; her dream was to become a nurse. In her days, nursing was done only by women of the lowest moral classes. In fact, when women were churched in the police they were often given the choice of going to prison or to hospital service. Her parents were horrified and did all they could to prevent it, but Florence was not to be turned aside.
2. Whenever she was abroad she visited hospitals, read books on nursing, reports of medical societies, histories of hospitals. She spent some weeks as a sister in a hospital in Paris and three months in a nursing school in Germany. When Florence was 34, she became superintendent of an “Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness”. She had been there a year when the Crimean War broke out. One of the hospitals where injured soldiers received treatment during the war was in a place called Scutari. That’s where 39 British nurses led by Florence Nightingale arrived from London in 1854. But…Was the war a place for woman?

Video: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War

1.  In less than twelve months, Florence Nightingale and her 38 nurses turned Scutari into a clean, well-organized hospital. She returned after the war as a national heroine. She had been shocked by the conditions in the hospital and began to campaign to improve the quality of nursing in military hospitals.

2. In September 1856 she met with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to  discuss ways to improve military medical systems. Huge reform took place – the Army started to train doctors, hospitals became cleaner and soldiers were provided with better clothing, food and care.

1. In 1860, the Nightingale Training School for Nurses was opened at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. Not only did the school provide excellent nurse training, it made nursing a respectable career for women who wanted to work outside the home. She also wrote about 200 books, pamphlets and reports on hospital, sanitation, and other health-related issues, as well as contributing to the field of statistics.

2. In 1907 she was given the Order of Merit, the highest civil honor the Government can give and the first ever given to a woman.

1. Florence was a very beautiful woman. She had a lot of fans. The man she came closest to accepting was the philanthropist and poet Richard Monckton Milnes, whom she met in 1842. She knew it was a match her mother would approve of and she thought he would be sympathetic to her interests. However, she eventually turned him down. She was never married.

2. During the war Nightingale felt ill with “Crimean fever”—most likely brucellosis, which she probably contracted from drinking contaminated milk. Nightingale experienced a slow recovery, as no active treatment was available. The lingering effects of the disease were to last for 25 years, frequently confining her to bed because of severe chronic pain. In 1912 she was died. She was 93.

1.  The Florence Nightingale Medal  was established in 1912  by the International Committee of the Red Cross , It is the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve and is awarded to nurses or nursing aides for "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or to civilian victims of a conflict or disaster" or "for a creative and pioneering spirit in the areas of public health or nursing education".

2. In 1982 The Museum of Florence Nightingale was found in London. The year 2020 was the year of nursing in honor of this great woman.

1. Today nurses all around the world take a pledge of Florence Nightingale.

The pledge of Florence Nightingale

“I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping, and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavour to aid the physician in his work, and as a 'missioner of health' I will dedicate myself to devoted service to human welfare.”

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2. Someone said: “Save one life you're a hero. Save a hundred lives, you're a nurse”

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