On the occasion of the celebration of May 12 - International Nurses' Day, last week was held under the title: “The Role of the Nurse in the "Dr. Ivan Seliminski" Hospital - Sliven.
Nurses are the largest professional group within healthcare. Nursing is not just a technique, performing manipulations and activities prescribed by a doctor, but a humane profession, related to caring for a person, sick or healthy, to restore and preserve his health.
The role of a nurse is variable and diverse, she is often called a "professional mother" And how much knowledge, skills and effort a nurse needs to help patients in different situations! Sometimes she has to take on the role of a psychologist, social worker, physiotherapist, other times to help solve urgent household needs of the patient, often performing unusual tasks.
Modern nursing is a science and an art. The nursing profession is faced with the challenges of constant reforms in the field of healthcare, ongoing qualification and improvement of competencies.
However, nurses are there for patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Nurses and associated specialists at the “Dr. Ivan Seliminski” Hospital AD impose proven professionalism, combined with respect and preservation of the dignity of the patient, his autonomy and harmony with society and social needs.
By decision of the International Nursing Committee of 1935, May 12 - the birthday of Florence Nightingale - is celebrated as International Nursing Day.
Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing and one of the hundred most influential people of all time. She was born in Florence into a wealthy English family. She had excellent opportunities for a classical education, but from early childhood she showed sympathy for the sick and the poor and at the age of 24 decided to devote herself to nursing. In 1851 she began training as a nurse in Germany. But her true dedication to nursing came during the Crimean War, when she organized 38 volunteers and took charge of the medical complex of the Scutari Hospital in Turkey.
Thanks to the standards she established for caring for wounded soldiers and those suffering from cholera and dysentery, the mortality rate dropped from 42% to 4%. This made her a national heroine of England. After the war, she took up the reform of the medical service and public health.
In 1859, she published her views on nursing care in her “Hospital Notes”.
In 1860, she opened the first secular nursing school ”Nightingale” and a home for practicing nurses at ”St. Thomas” Hospital in London. In doing so, she laid the foundations of professional nursing care.