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Nurses Day 2021: District nurses covering Huntingdonshire wearing scrubs made by local volunteers.
- Credit: Denise Mallas
Nurses will be honoured for their tireless dedication in helping care for those in need on May 12 - and here in Huntingdonshire we wanted to share our own special thank you.
International Nurses Day 2021, which has the theme “Nurses: A Voice to Lead , will mark the 201th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale who was believed to be the founder of modern nursing.
The day celebrates the tireless efforts of nurses in maintaining public health – even more so over the last year during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Research Article
International gestational age-specific centiles for blood pressure in pregnancy from the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in 8 countries: A longitudinal cohort study
Lauren J. Green , Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Affiliation Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
“Mind you, some of my family and friends who had been away with me on holiday were a bit upset that they were going to lose their flying concessions!” life-changing learning Jane admits the training was, “a steep learning curve”.
She adds: “It was life-changing, but in a brilliant way. Nursing was everything I’d hoped it would be. It ticked all my boxes.” After proudly putting on her nurse’s uniform for the first time, Jane began work in the open-heart surgery unit at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, providing pre and post-surgery care for patients.
“I felt a bit of a fraud on that first day,” says Jane, who lives in Derby and is married to a Rolls-Royce manager. “But everyone else in the unit was really supportive, and I learned fast.”
Hospitals offer holiday and bonuses to Covid-weary staff in England Denis Campbell Health policy editor
Hospitals are helping staff recover from the Covid pandemic by giving them extra holiday, bonuses of up to £100, much better food while on duty – and even drama and poetry sessions.
NHS trusts across England are also hiring psychologists, expanding childcare and overhauling rest areas as part of a drive to reward staff for their efforts and improve their working lives.
The moves by hospitals to show their staff how much they appreciate them come amid the growing row over the government’s plan to restrict the NHS England workforce to a pay rise of just 1%, which critics have called “an insult” and “a slap in the face”.