Nurses celebrate their special day
The 2016 International Nurses' Day theme highlighted the need for resilience.
NURSES at Netcare Margate Hospital were treated recently to a beach-themed lunch to celebrate International Nurses Day, observed every year on May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.
The International Nurses’ Council theme for 2016 was ‘A force for Change: Improving health systems Resilience’. The organisers of the Margate celebration chose a beach theme for the function as they could link it with this year’s international Nurses’ Day theme.
They said that just as resilient coastal environment could weather tides and coastal storms, nurses could make an enormous impact on the resilience of health systems by building strong relationships with patients and colleagues, meeting new challenges, facing crises and adapting to change.
“Coastal resilience was linked to the theme as it represented the ability of natural and human communities to bounce back and to take heed of factors such as early warning systems. Like communities affected by coastal storms in South Africa, nurses need to resolve to be resilient, rather than simply to react to impacts,” said a hospital spokesman.
The other big challenge for Netcare Margate Hospital this year had been the opening of the new expansion of the intensive care unit and the paediatric and surgical wards, the spokesman added.
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