CCTV News:Today (May 12th) is the International Nurses’ Day, and the theme of this year’s Nurses’ Day in China is "developing nurses and improving nursing services". Over the past few days, various places have held colorful activities to celebrate the Nurses’ Day and pay tribute to angels in white.
On the eve of the 112th International Nurses’ Day, Chengdu Railway Health School held a ceremony of "passing light and awarding hats" for more than 1,600 graduates who are about to take up nursing posts. In melodious music, seniors put on holy swallow hats for nursing graduates, lit candles in their hands, and held lanterns for the goddess — — Nightingale’s spirit of "burning herself and illuminating others" was passed on to a new generation of nurses.
Xu Che, Class 6, Class 2021, Chengdu Railway Health School:Respecting life and ensuring health is a promise that every medical staff should abide by. In my future work, I will treat every patient with sincerity, love and responsibility.
With the development of society, in recent years, more and more male nurses have joined the nursing team. By the end of 2021, among the more than 5 million nurses in China, the proportion of male nurses accounted for 3%. In the celebration of Nurses’ Day held by the First People’s Hospital of Huai ‘an City, Jiangsu Province, male nurses showed their daily work and elegance through adapted songs and dances.
Xu Keping, Party Secretary of Huai ‘an First People’s Hospital:Male nurses in some special nursing positions, especially in critical care, operating room, ICU and other positions, need not only the rapid response of nursing itself, but also some physical strength sometimes, and male nurses show their superiority in this respect.
In order to improve the level of nursing service, on the eve of Nurses’ Day, Fudan Zhongshan Xiamen Hospital held a nurse skills competition. First of all, the discussion is intravenous indwelling needle puncture, which requires the contestants to choose the best puncture site of vein for puncture and fix it properly. Then the competition is first aid skills, nurses need to judge the patient’s condition, carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation in time, and cooperate with the use of defibrillator.
Yan Meiqiong, Executive Director of Nursing Department of Fudan Zhongshan Xiamen Hospital:The skills of various specialties and first aid skills have very high requirements for nurses. Through such skill operation training, the nursing technical operation level of hospital nurses is continuously improved, professional knowledge is updated, nursing quality is improved and nursing safety is guaranteed.