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Innovation with Heart
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New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association had a creativity competition this year for nurses on May 12 International Nurses Day. In conjunction with the Short Film Festival, they held a Short Story and Poetry Competition. The films, stories and poetry are impressive, insightful and inspirational! Read More 2015 Entries>>> Read 2014 Entries >>>
Because during the month of May, Nurses Moving Forward celebrate Nurses’ Hands and Hearts, reprinted below is one of the many phenomenal submissions to the competition, which is about nurses’ hands. (Regretfully no author credit found, see link to document)
WHAT IF NURSES’ HANDS COULD TALK?
What if nurses’ Hands could talk?
Imagine the tales they’d tell!
The weird, the whacky, the wonderful – and the woeful as well.
They’d tell tales offending orifices that the outside world don’t know
Like stomas, sinuses and fistulae, oozing mysterious goo.
These nurses’ hands treat the wounds of a victim’s lacerations
while soothing the fears and lamentations caused by these vicious confrontations.
From grappling with dentures stuck in a mouth
to inserting suppositories way down south,
Nurses’ hands can deliver tiny babies
And have treated scabies, even rabies.
They comfort the poor and rich alike;
all are consoled whether sane or psych.
These hands relieve pain with touch, needle, and balm,
– ever comforting, ever calm.
The Murdoch press would love to talk to nurses’ hands, no doubt.
Tales in ‘The Sun’ would pack a clout from sordid details coming out
of the famous having tummy tucks or breast implants (“Not I”),
to addictive habits and toxic drugs sending them awry.
Artists may paint, sculptors may sculpt and piano players play.
But the nurses’ hands swab, bathe, soothe and heal
All in a single day
These precious hands God bless them all.
Applause, ring that bell!!
It’s sad that nurses’ hands can’t talk-
But lucky they cannot smell!!
Nurses Moving Forward encourages and supports creativity and innovation in nurses. Your work is about you. It is all about give-as-you-would-want-to-receive, reap-as-you-sow. You are your work. You become a better you the deeper you go into your work. That is different than being buried in work; drained stressed and fatigued. Your work becomes richer and more meaningful the more you put yourself in to it, if it is your calling.
You also get to know and express your diverse self through creative expression and hobbies. Nurses’ talent, education, virtues, personality and wisdom complement many other endeavors. We feel that you will be amazing at anything that you set your heart on because you are a nurse; a nurturer. Exploring your creative self will help you gain insights that may inspire you to places, jobs and opportunities that are your calling.
Submit your creative, inspirational, insightful, exploratory and expressive work for publication by Nurses Moving Forward. Submit here >>>
(Discipline + Independence) + (Creativity + Confidence) +(Inner Gifts) = Vision + Acceptance
Can you see how it adds up? The people who are nurses use the wisdom, discipline from their roots and acceptance of the way of things. And with the focused intention of their diverse talents go foward with vision, creativity and confidence. When guided by their inner gifts toward achievement of independence in service of others with highest of purpose.
This sums, literally and mathematically, the essence of the virtues of the people who are nurses, the evolution of the profession and the potential for future growth, leadership, advocacy and innovation for nurses. This is what contributed to inspiring the development of Nurses Moving Forward. Supporting nurses who want to move forward personally in this “opportune moment of now”. See About Us >>> and the meaning behind NMF logo. >>>
If this includes you, you are needed now to become your best. In developing yourself, finding your purpose, maintaining your health and well being; you will help others. Social benefit businesses are needed, nurses are trusted and elevated for their values, knowledge and wisdom from their intimate work with people in many stages and chapters in their lives. People are encouraging nurses to speak, lead, inspire, advocate and participate. Watch the movie The American Nurse and join in the conversation and the action. >>>
Days of celebration for nurses:
May 5th
International Day of the Midwife May 5th 5 May International Day of the Midwife, NMF supports the International Confederation of Midwives’ theme “Midwives: for a better tomorrow”, which encourages midwives to be involved in the work to achieve the new set of goals called the Sustainable Development Goals and create a brighter future for mothers, babies, and families.
May 6th
National Nurses’ Day always is celebrated May 6 and opens National Nurses Week, May 6-12
May 6, 2015 when we celebrate School Nurses: Caring for Others. Caring for Ourselves.
May 10th
Nurses Moving Forward Day -To celebrate the opportune moment of now for nurses to be involved, informed and innovative – innovation with heart!
May 12th
Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820 and wikipedia describes her as a social reformer and statistician.
In a Jacksonville Florida news website article Gail Green, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer at St. Vincent’s Medical Center Riverside, said Nightingale’s numerous contributions to health care, nursing and society should not be forgotten.
“In recent years, Florence Nightingale’s amazing story doesn’t seem to garner the attention it deserves,” Green said. “Newer nurses sometimes are less aware of the remarkable nature of her accomplishments. Florence Nightingale was a true pioneer and a woman ahead of her time. In addition to being a caring, competent nurse, she was a statistician who showed us the importance of statistics in care management and improving conditions and recovery rates for patients.”
Nightingale and a team of nurses cared for injured British soldiers during the Crimean War. They so improved the unsanitary conditions at the British base hospital that the number of deaths was reduced by two-thirds. She was a social reformer whose written work and the results of her efforts triggered significant reforms in health care. During her lifetime she also established a hospital and a training school for nurses.
International Nurses Day (IND) is celebrated around the world on 12 May of each year, to mark the contributions nurses make to society- International Council of Nurses . In an article on their blog, on May 4, 2015, this was said about International Nurses Day as the Ruffaida Honory Society wrote:
The International Council of Nurses 2015 theme Nurses: A Force for Change: Care Effective, Cost Effective reflects the commitment to better health outcomes through a change in healthcare systems.
The rising cost of healthcare and increased financial burdens of health, positions the nurses who are the largest profession within the health workforce and who are at the centre of patient care, to be powerful change agents in ensuring quality cost effective patient care. Our understanding of the healthcare delivery landscape is not only achieving best quality, access and cost balance, it includes nurses proactive contributions to ensure that every day practices are efficient and effective within the healthcare system.
In an effort to be seen as one voice….read the complete article >>>
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