“The reason that Nurses Day is held on the 12th May each year is because this is the birth date of Florence Nightingale. She made many reforms to nursing and health care and drastically cut the death rate amongst soldiers in the Crimean War as a result of her hard work, dedication and training of fellow nurses”.
Each year, on the 12th of May, nurses celebrate nursing and raise the profile of their work in a variety of ways and events. Few can say they are untouched by the hard work and dedication of nurses in the Pakistan and throughout the world and International Nurses Day is an opportunity to learn about the work of nurses and their workplaces.
It is also a day for nurses worldwide to celebrate their profession and unite to take pride in their jobs and show the world the importance of their work.
For the 2nd consecutive year, emed nurses from Allied Hospital School of Nursing and DHQ School of Nursing Faisalabad, Pakistan gathered on the global platform on 9.6.2010, to press on the health profession that without nurses, health team can neither be ideal nor complete. emed Vice President, Assistant Professor, Dr Humaira and agile member Dr Mudassar Faiza supervised the student nurses to prepare a variety program with the help of coordinators in DHQ and Allied schools, Miss Farhana, Staff Farzana and Staff Kausar Talib.
Principals of both schools Madam Samina Mushtaq and Madam Perveen Akhtar attended the event with their teaching staff and large number of audience undergraduate and graduate nurses. Officiating Medical Superintendent DHQ Hospital Dr Khurram Altaf was invited as the Chief Guest.
Speaking on the occasion Madam Samina Mushtaq welcomed the guests and stressed upon the need of decreasing the growing trivial mis-understandings between the nurses and the young house officers. She said that Professors and the In charge of the wards can play a very vital role in decreasing tensions that arise off and on. Dr Humaira Arshad projected the objectives of emed and said that emed believes in the importance of the nurses as part of the ideal health team and assured that the issues pointed by Mrs Samina Mushtaq will be discussed with the teaching staff on relevant platforms.
Madam Perveen Akhtar thanked emed on their long standing working links with the nursing schools and assured their continuous support in future also. Among the skits, poems and other items, the ‘qawali’ presented by the Community Midwifery team of DHQ school was declared as the best item of the eve and was awarded a trophy. Trophies were also awarded to the coordinators emed and respective schools of nursing.