Bahiana celebrates May 12th, Nurse's Day

Congratulations to all nursing students and professionals. This Wednesday, Nurse's Day is celebrated and to commemorate the date, the ADAB directors give a lecture Sickle cell anemia, in room 206 of the ADAB MP. The event will count on the participation of health professionals from the public network, students, teachers and the community of Brotas. The objective is to thank the nurses for their commitment to caring for people.

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On May 12, Nurses' Day is celebrated worldwide, in reference to Florence Nightingale, a landmark of modern nursing and which was born on May 12, 1820.

In Brazil, in addition to Nurse's Day, between the 12th and 20th of May, the Nursing Week, established in the mid-40s, in honor of two great characters in Nursing in the world: Florence Nigthingale and Ana Néri, a Brazilian nurse and the first to voluntarily enlist in military combat.

The profession has its ancient origins and dates back to the time when being a nurse was a reference to those who cared for, protected and nurtured convalescent, elderly and disabled people.

For centuries, Nursing has been training professionals all over the world, committed to the health and well-being of human beings. In Brazil alone, there are more than 100 nurses, in addition to nursing technicians and assistants, who add up to around 900 professionals across the country. These job variations make more professionals join the sector and new job possibilities in this area.

Origin of Profession
Since Old Testament times, the nursing profession was already recognized by those who cared for and protected sick people, especially the elderly and the disabled, because at that time, such attitudes guaranteed man the maintenance of his survival.
At that time and for many centuries, nursing was associated with female work, characterized by the practice of caring for primitive nomadic groups.

Over time, health practices evolved and, between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries,
Nursing appears as a lay practice, developed by religious as if it were just another priesthood. Thus, it became an undignified and unattractive practice for women at the time, as they considered work as a domestic service, which attested to the drop in moral standards that supported, until then, the work of nursing.

Even with this crisis in the profession, the evolution of work associated with the recognition of the practice, in the mid-XNUMXth century, Nursing began to be seen as an institutionalized professional activity and, in the XNUMXth century, seen as modern Nursing in England.

From there, definitions and standards for the profession were cataloged and the ANA (American Nurses Association) defines Nursing as "a science and an art, considering that the main objective of the work is to take care of real health problems, through interdependent actions with technical-scientific support, as well as recognizing the significant role of nurses in educating for health, having skills in predicting diseases and the individual and unique care of the patient".

Where does the name Nurse come from?
The word Nurse/o is composed of two Latin words: “nutrix”, which means Mother, and the verb “nutrire”, which has the meanings to create and nurture. These two words, adapted to XNUMXth century English, ended up being transformed into the word NURSE, which, translated into Portuguese, means Nurse.

famous nurses
Over the past three centuries, some names in Nursing worldwide have become a reference in the history of the profession and the teachings that its practice propagates through time.

Immortalized, some of them like Florence and Ana Néri, still serve as a source of inspiration for new professionals, for scholars, novelists and those interested in the nursing profession.

Florence Nightingale – Lady of the Lamp
Born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy, she had unusual intelligence, tenacity of purpose, determination and perseverance - which allowed her to dialogue with politicians and army officers, making her ideas prevail. He easily mastered English, French, German, Italian, as well as Greek and Latin. In 1845, in Rome, in the desire to become a nurse, she studied the activities of the Catholic Brotherhoods and, in 1849, made a trip to Egypt, where she decided to serve God, working in Kaiserswert, Germany, among the deaconesses. Her first role as a war nurse was in 1854, in the Crimean War.

During the fighting of the Crimean War, soldiers made Florence their guardian angel as, with a lantern in her hand, she roamed the infirmaries of battalions and camps, attending to the sick, which made her known worldwide as Lady With The Light.

Upon returning in 1856, sick with typhus, Florence receives a cash prize from the English government in recognition of her work. She uses the money and starts the First School of Nursing, founded at the Hospital Saint Thomas in 1859, which became a model for the other schools that came later.

Ana Neri
Ana Justina Ferreira was born in 1813, in the city of Cachoeira, Bahia. Her vocation as a nurse began in mid-1864, when her two children, a military doctor and an army officer, were called up for the Paraguayan War (1864-1870). Ana Néri cannot resist separation from her family and puts herself at the government's disposal to go to war, being considered the first volunteer nurse in Brazil.

Ana Néri's role in the war, with the wounded, was tireless. She expanded as a nurse, administering medication and providing relief and comfort to patients.
After five years of war, Néri returns to Brazil and the Imperial Government grants him a pension, as well as humanitarian and campaign medals; and in the already republican period, the name Ana Néri was given to the first School of Nursing made official by the Federal Government, in 1923, belonging to the University of Brazil. Ana Néri died in Rio de Janeiro, on May 20, 1880, at the age of sixty-six

Brazilian women in World War II
Not only the little soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) were immortalized during World War II. A delegation of more than 100 Brazilian nurses left for the front to assist emergency stations and to help and facilitate communication between US Army soldiers and officers with those of the Brazilian Army, as the two countries were allies in the war.

"I believe that the greatest gift anyone can give me is to see me, hear me, understand me and touch me.
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch each other.
When that happens, I feel like we've made contact."

Virginia satir

 
May we continue to "touch" the heart of each individual, providing a true meeting for learning and transformation. After all, we are "people" who take care of "people"!

HAPPY NURSE'S DAY!

SOURCE: www.hospital.com