Happy International Nurses Day

To commemorate the birthday of Florence Nightingale, every year International Nurses Day is celebrated on 12^th May. We all know about “Lady with the Lamp”, Florence Nightingale, a great nurse who has contributed a lot to the nursing profession. In fact, she is the founder of modern nursing. The most important I want to highlight today is her great contributions to Statistics. Yes… She was a great statistician too. She used to use the Polar Area Diagram, also called Nightingale Rose Diagram, which is similar to the modern histogram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

You can see the Nightingale Rose Diagram here…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Nightingale-mortality.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Polar_area_diagram

She was the first female member of Royal Statistical Society and later became the honorary member of the American Statistical Association.

This is a source of inspiration for the cross-functional performance at work and interdisciplinarity in education.

Now coming to this year’s theme for International Nurses Day…. A Voice to Lead - Invest in Nursing and respect rights to secure global health

During the pandemic, the entire world has recognized the importance of the front line warriors especially the nurses. Their contributions are immense to humankind.

The multi-skills we can appreciate in the nurses are-

·         Empathy/Compassion

·         Self/Patient Care

·         Patience/Hope/Optimism/Perseverance

·         Learning/Knowledge/Experience

·         Analytical

·         Communication

·         Emergency Preparedness

·         Emotional Intelligence

·         Social Intelligence

·         Physical Fitness

Let us all salute the services provided by the nurses to the humanity for making the world  a Happy & Healthy place to live in...