Nurses pledge allegiance on International Nurses’ Day

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Cutting the cake on Nurses’ Day.

KUCHING: Nurses of Normah Medical Specialist Centre (NMSC) on International Nurses’ Day assembled to pledge their allegiance to the nursing profession.

Various activities were held by the specialist centre for its nursing staff including a home visit in Kampung Rampangi, Jalan Kuching-Santubong on May 10 that included health-screening and teaching. During the visit, the nurses presented donations and goodies to the family.

International Nurses’ Day is celebrated on May 12 to commemorate the birthday of Florence ightingale. Nurses all over the world celebrate it under the theme ‘Nurses: A force for change, a vital resource for health’.

In her message, nursing director Nadzrah Basri thanked the nurses for their dedication and hard work, and reminded them to continue to provide quality care with compassion at all times.

She said nurses were accessible to many people in their lifetime. They are well regarded and often the first to reach underserved and disadvantaged populations.

“Nurses are educated to understand the complex nature of maintaining health and wellness, and the impact of psychosocial and socio-economic facts such as poverty, unemployment and ethnicity,” she added.

Quoting Florence Nightingale, Nadzrah said: “Nursing is an art and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion and as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work: for what is having to do with dead canvas or dead marble compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said the finest of Fine Arts.”

She asked the nurses to love and help one another, to strive together, and to work together for the same end.

Nadzrah hoped to inspire nurses to “change the picture” and demonstrate to the institution, employers and society that nursing was a vital resource for health.

NMSC administrator Latipah Ahmad celebrated Nurses’ Day at the medical centre with a cake-cutting ceremony followed by an aerobic session and telematch.

Each nurse received a gift as a token of appreciation.