NURSING+INSPIRATIONS

=//__**Nursing Inspirations**__//=

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__**//Florence Nightingale Pledge//**__

I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care__.__

__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, PhD, RN


 * __//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 Join With Other Health-care Professionals, Nurses, and Concerned Global Citizens in Making This Declaration//-- and to Learn More-- F//ollow Thi//s Link To The "__Night__//ingale Declaration.net" Site. [|www.nightingaledeclaration.net]

I am here in Nursing School for many good reasons, but my primary motivation is I want to care for the sick, the injured, the old, the poor, the children, and all those that I can in some way help. It is my personal understanding that this is why I am here, to do a noble service to make a difference in the world and people's lives, and I believe this is God's desire for me. Nursing is not just what I want to do -- it is what I need to do. It is in giving that we receive.

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
[This prayer is not especially medically oriented, but we can certainly enhance our profession by seeking God's help in living according to these standards.]

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
 * St. Francis of Assisi, born 1181.

Nurses and nursing students constantly face suffering, crisis, birth, death, and ethical dilemmas. They must make crucial decisions in high pressure situations. Daily challenges force them to ask ultimate questions about the meaning of life. They urgently need spiritual values and resources to give them support, direction and hope.

Yes it's True. I am a Christian. I know Jesus and he knows who I am, warts and all. I don't believe in being pushy about faith or spirituality, but I have learned or rather, - been shown, that God is real, and he can and does help. Here are some Christian Nursing and Spirituality Enhancing links:

http://www.angelfire.com/co/powerpraise/goinghome.html http://www.angelfire.com/co/powerpraise/Intercession.html http://www.annieshomepage.com/nursesday.html

http://ncf.intervarsity.org/ Nurses Christian Fellowship home page

Caring for Nurses - this site addresses stress, humour, nursing poetry and stories, etc.--

They found an unconscious student nurse on the side of the road the other day. How did they know it was a student nurse? ...the bladder was full, the stomach was empty, and the backside had been chewed!

Check it out at http://carenurse.com/

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