International Nurses' Day

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Which famous nurse helped soldiers in the Crimean War?

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. What do nurses do?

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. When was Florence Nightingale's birthday?

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. What did Florence Nightingale do?

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Which famous nurse was born in 1820?

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. What happens on 12th May?

𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Since when has International Nurses' Day been celebrated?

𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Who organises International Nurses' Day?

𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐬. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈. Florence Nightingale is largely considered to be responsible for ‘modern ’ as we know it today. Florence began nursing wounded in hospitals near the battlefields during the Crimean War in the mid-1850s. She greatly improved the level of , which changed nursing standards and saved many . She later established formal nursing training in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝑵𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆? Nurses work in many different settings, including hospitals, health centres, nursing homes, hospices, and academia, with most nurses working for the National Health Service (NHS). Nurses can also specialise in a variety of areas, such as respiratory, diabetes, infectious diseases, liver, research, and cardiac. Nursing can be a particularly stressful profession. The fast-paced and unpredictable nature of healthcare means that nurses often suffer from work-related stress. This stress can be caused by a variety of things, including the emotional element involved in nursing, physical labour, shift work, and high workload.