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Roses and words of thanks

12. 5. 2014

A flower and a thank you for the hard work that both nurses and other nursing staff do on a daily basis from hospital director Natasha Petsini and head nurse Ilona Kupkova. This is what it looked like, on the eve of International Nurses' Day, at the Rehabilitation Hospital Beroun , Friday afternoon, May 9.

12.5.2014

With this act, the hospital management decided to commemorate for the first time in a new chapter of the history of the Beroun hospital a holiday that has been celebrated all over the world since 1965. It was created in honour of the birth of Florence Nightingale, (12.5. 1820), a woman from an English noble family who, despite initial resistance from her family, began to care for the sick and wounded and was the first to lay the foundations of the nursing model still used today among British wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. She was instrumental in the first education of nurses , with a major emphasis on hygiene as well as kindness and empathy for the sick.

Healthcare, as such, has the most beautiful humane mission - to serve man, to maintain his health as the highest value of life and to help the sick and suffering with the utmost professionalism, dedication and humanity. It is not for nothing that we often hear that the nursing profession is one of those that is a mission. On the other hand, if a nurse loves her job, it certainly brings her a strong sense of self-fulfilment that most people need to live a fulfilling life.

"I am very glad that the vast majority of nurses in the Beroun hospital do their work with dedication, full commitment, collegiality, and have the necessary dose of humanity and a kind word and smile for patients.That this is not just my opinion is evidenced by the thanks for their work that we receive almost daily from patients and their family members," said Natasha Petsini, the hospital director, adding that she is duly proud to have such quality employees. "They are connected vessels - without the work of our nurses and other medical staff, our doctors, who are very erudite and dedicated, would have a much harder job. And, of course, vice versa," she reminded.

The time when Florence Nigtingal was a kind of merciful angel is long gone. But even today, modern women nurses sometimes hear and appreciate the term. And it is not in vain to say that a smile and a kind word heals...

It is therefore good that this profession also has its own holiday, a day when the unsurpassed and irreplaceable word THANK YOU can be officially heard!