The
year 2012 marks the Centenary of International Nurses Day. The
profession of nursing was started by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a
British nursing pioneer who established the first school of modern nursing. In honour of
the significant
contribution that Nightingale, reputed as the “Lady
of the Lamp”, made in nursing, her birthday May 12, is celebrated
worldwide as the International Nurses Day, aiming to advocate, inherit, and
promote the pioneer’s humanistic spirit of overcoming difficulties to help the
sick and wounded through dedication and sacrifice. China National Philatelic
Corporation issued an FDC with special 1.20 Yuan stamp to commemorate this Day.
My friend Cloud sent me this cover from China.
Florence
Nightingale OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August
1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came
to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War,
where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the
Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. An Anglican, Nightingale
believed that God had called her to be a nurse. Nightingale laid the foundation
of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school
at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the
world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken
by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses
Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
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