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erie
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9 responses to “Days 130-132 – Open Forum on National Nurse’s Week”
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I hope readers might share a thought or two, or a story in K.Gibran’s words how “Work is Love made visible.”
I’d like to begin by sharing this healing prayer in honor of nurses and all those who dedicate their lives towards the healing of our sorrowful world.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams,
pour into the rivers, and join together in the oceans,
so may the power of every moment of your goodness
flow forth to awaken and heal all beings–
those here now, those gone before, those yet to come.
By the power of every moment of your goodness,
may your heart’s wishes be soon fulfilled
as completely shining as the bright full moon,
as magically as by a wish-fulfilling gem.
By the power of every moment of your goodness,
may all dangers be averted and all disease be gone.
May no obstacle come across your way.
May you enjoy fulfillment and long life.
For all in whose heart dwells respect,
who follow wisdom and compassion,
may your life prosper in the four blessings
of old age, beauty, happiness, and strength.
Source: Holistic LivingLikeLike
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I would daresay that most of us would not be alive if it weren’t for a nurse somewhere. For those who attended my birth, handed the right scalpel to a surgeon, gave me pain meds after a surgery, or held me close when I was in desparate fear – I literally owe you my life. To all of you nurses who breathe life into each of us each day, I am grateful.
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I wish to express gratitude to my hero’s…
Patricia Maio RN who is using her nursing knowledge to advocate and navigate in fragmented healthcare system; she is there for my brother offering kindness and Love .
June van den Noort RN whose Love and devotion to caring for Stan blossoms from the truest of all love stories.
Marilyn Donan RN a loyal friend and caregiver to John; both are honest and courageous in their Loving and in letting go.LikeLike
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Karin Reiss RN in her quiet humble way ministers to the hearts and minds of others and lifts the spirits of so many with her abiding faith. She never seeks recognition for being a conduit of light that helps Love manifest in our world. There are countless ways and I will share just one story. There is a young Hispanic woman who cleans our offices. One day she felt ill and confided this to Karin who speaks fluent Spanish. Karin assessed the woman’s symptoms and suspected diabetes. Karin checked the woman’s blood sugar and it was extremely high. She cautioned her to seek immediate medical care and this woman was diagnosed with diabetes and started on insulin. Karin went a step further to obtain Spanish teaching materials to help her learn about her health care needs. She is so grateful to Karin for helping to improve her health and quality of life. I am grateful to Karin for truly living our mission.
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God continue to bless all of us who seek to ease the sufferings of others. May we pull from the sources within us to obtain and utilize the gifts which we have been given to heal and comfort.
I am also thankful for all of the blessings my fellow nurses give to me, the encouragement to seek the beauty, the compassion and the strength that exists within all of us who are called.
Love to all of you…LikeLike
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Nightingale Initiative of Global Health (NIGH)
“We must create public opinion which must drive the government instead of the government having to drive us — an enlightened public opinion, wise in principles, wise in details.” — Florence Nightingale
Mahatma Gandhi on Florence Nightingale: “She was not afraid of going even to the battle-front, and did not know what fear was. She feared only God. Knowing that one has to die some day or other, she readily bore whatever hardships were necessary in order to alleviate the sufferings of others.”
May 12th is Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nurses from around the world will take a moment at 12noon to honor her. Perhaps you might too by sharing this prayer.
Our Nightingale Prayer
“Today, our world needs healing and to be rekindled with Love.
Once, Florence Nightingale lit her beacon of lamplight to comfort the wounded and her Light has blazed a path of service across a Century to us, through her example and through the countless Nurses and Healers who have followed in her footsteps.
Today, we celebrate the flame of Florence Nightingale’s Legacy. Let that same Light be rekindled to burn brightly in our hearts.
Let us take up our own Lanterns of Caring, each in our own ways.
To more brightly walk our own paths of service to the World. To more clearly share our own Noble Purpose with each other.
May Human Caring become the Lantern for the 21st Century.
May we better learn to care for ourselves, for each other and for all Creation.
Through our Caring, may we be the Keepers of that Flame.
That Our Spirits may burn brightly to kindle the hearts of our children and great-grandchildren as they too follow in these footsteps.” By ~Deva Marie Beck
Nightingale Initiative of Global Health (NIGH) mission is to inform and empower nurses and other health care workers and educators to become ‘21st Century Nightingales’ — working in the local, national and global community to build a healthy world.
NIGH seeks to achieve a healthy world by:
• Enabling peoples of the United Nations, as citizens of its Member States, to work together in a worldwide campaign for health as the top global priority;
• Enlisting nurses and other health care workers and educators to work together effectively — and to collaborate with others of like-mind, heart and spirit— in mobilizing public opinion to this purpose;
• Encouraging individual initiative and cooperative action toward these ends by highlighting the life of Florence Nightingale and the lives other nurses and health care workers—past and present—who have devoted themselves to building a healthy world.
Goals:
• To build a grassroots movement among nurses, health care workers, educators and other global citizens—from every country and community—who will work together to inform, educate and mobilize public opinion throughout the world towards the adoption of health as the universal priority of the United Nations and its Member States;
• To use communications, media, performing arts and promotional tools for advocacy of these ends;
• To identify, share and actively encourage ‘approaches that work’ to create a healthy world;
• To contribute positive solutions to the worldwide nursing shortage.
The Nightingale Declaration for Our Healthy World
“We, the nurses and concerned citizens of the global community, hereby dedicate ourselves to the accomplishment of a healthy world by the year 2020.
We declare our willingness to unite in a program of action, sharing information and solutions to resolve problems and improve conditions — locally, nationally and globally — in order to achieve health for all humanity.
We further resolve to adopt personal practices and to implement public policies in our communities and nations, making this goal for the year 2020 achievable and inevitable, beginning today in our own lives, in the life of our nations and in the world at large.”
To learn more and to join thousands of other nurses who are signing the Nightengale Declaration go to: http://www.nightengaledeclaration.netLikeLike
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To all the nurses who rise early, travel by public transport (or any kind of transport) in all kinds of weather to be there when a resident awakes in the morning – to offer a smile, to take her hand, to refresh her and to nourish her, I say thank you. I repeat my thanks because you do this day in and day out and on most occasions the resident cannot express her gratitude to you. You continue to be the smile of God, the touch of compassion and the hope that reminds each of us of what is really important in life. On Nurse’s Day may your heart rejoice in the goodness of your loving, living and serving.
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Thank you for the remembrance of an open forum for Nurse’s Week. I would personally like to wish all the great nurses that I have known and know a wonderful Nurse’s Week for their commitment and passion for the delivery of quality patient care. I also want to recognize their dedication to not only their organizations and communities but to their families, on this Mother’s Day. Therefore, I dedicate this short poem or verse to them and all nurses.
I found this small verse a few years ago by chance in a classmates book that she had lent me for a semester. She was herself a mother of four, went to nursing school full-time and worked full-time. I often wondered how she handled work with the rest of life; as I had understood it was always so stressful and filled with projects and deadlines. Then I found this prayer tucked away in this book in no specific spot, just between the pages. I made a copy of it, and returned it at the end the semester when I returned her book. I told her that I had found it and she shared with me that it had been her motivation to continue on days when she thought she was all alone in her struggles. She is one of the best nurses I know and mother. You are the best Judy, RN.
A Working Mother’s Prayer
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray, the Lord, I won’t get beeped,
My cell phone will not start to ring,
My email will not sound a “ding.”
I wish for peace throughout the house,
For silence quiet as a mouse,
No little children in my bed,
No thoughts of work to fill my head.
And while I’m at it, may I ask
For help with just one simple task…
To get my children in my bed
Without my screams that wake the dead?
Let there be mile for breakfast-time,
My car keys out for me to find,
The children dressed in matching socks…
Snacks they’ll like in each lunch box.
I pray for traffic to be light,
My kids in place, all buckled tight,
And all will have their coats and hats,
Then off to work…ten minutes flat.
And once I’m there, please let there be
A parking space out front for me.
I’m on a roll…so I will ask
For no complaints by phone or fax.
I know that I must end this prayer,
But one more thing…or do I dare?
I know I’ve asked for quite a lot
But may I add just one more thought?
Lord, if you could just see a way,
For me to have one perfect day,
I’d be forever in your debt…
But I’ll take whatever I can get!!
~Cheryl M Kramer (Chicken Soup for the Working Woman’s Soul)LikeLike
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Let me express my gratitude to this hero
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