Today is the birthday of Florence Nightingale who was born on 12 May 1820 and died on 13 August 1910 at the age of 90. Later in life the nurse was given the name The Lady with the Lamp as she was the pioneer of modern nursing, and it is because of this that a Florence Nightingale service used to take place, but the last one that was performed was back in 90’s in Swansea. Well it now looks as though nurses in Swansea have decided to renew the lady with the lamp service, the nurses who took part say that it symbolises their profession’s values as well as the story of Florence Nightingale
The service which took place on Sunday May 11 at St Mary’s Church also marked the 60th anniversary of the NHS as well as the merger of Swansea and Bro Morgannwg NHS trusts which then became the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust. The Lady with lamp’ service has nurses taking part who will carry a lamp to the church altar, the lamp itself was crafted back in 1960 and is a copy of the one that Florence Nightingale used while she did her bit to help the wounded in the Crimean War, which took place in the 1850’s. The silver lamp which is used in the service is passed from a nurse who is about to retire to one who has different levels of experience and then finally being passed to a student nurse.
Source – BBC News
I feel Mrs. Nightingale was a hippocrite, she promised not to do any harm and she did the opposite, she didn’t allow this well known color woman to join her in the Crimean War, she said thing about this woman to lower the populations believe in this woman’s healing power. she was exactly like Mrs. Nightingale execpt, she wasn’t rich and did have people of power backing her up but she did have compassion in her heart that GOD had blessed her with as well to heal the sick and feed the hungry. All nurses around the Glob are required to honor this lady but the real honorer should be, to a lady that had limited means and used those means to help the sick and feed the hungry and she traveled around the country to do just that and still joined Mrs. Nightingale in the Crimean War. She had vital information and a GOD fearing heart that lead her to continue healing and feeding the hungry desipte the ” whites have to be right” notion, that’s by far over rated.
Comment by Cynclar Hayes — May 14, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
Happy B-day Mrs. Flo!
Comment by richa callaway — May 14, 2008 @ 9:12 pm