In distress, there will always be someone to carry the burden forward!
Every year on May 12th, the International Nurses' Day, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing.
2020 marks the 200th anniversary of Nightingale's birth. The great woman, who used to fight in the blood, reduced the death rate of soldiers from 42.7 percent to 2.2 percent, reversing the public stereotype of nurses.
In the face of a new corona epidemic, health care workers around the world are taking huge risks to save patients' lives.
The surge in the number of patients and the shortage of personal protective equipment have put pressure on front-line health care workers both physically and mentally. Many health care workers shared photos on social media of their exhausted work and self-protection using disposable raincoats, garbage bags and other simple materials.
As of April 8, 22,073 health care workers in 52 countries and regions had contracted new coronary pneumonia, according to the World Health Organization. As the world's health care workers are not systematically reported to the World Health Organization, this figure may not represent the true situation of new coronary pneumonia infection among health care workers worldwide.
Hundreds of health care workers have died from the virus, leaving their broken families behind. Their names and deeds should always be remembered.
In a hospital environment, patients are often helpless - they need to rely on the authority and responsibility of their health care workers, to be patient and to have a certain belief in difficult medicine. According to the historian Yang Nianqun, the "doctor-patient relationship" underwent a change in the patient's subjectivity in the course of the development of traditional medicine into modern medicine: the definition of disease began to change from the symptoms of the patient's self-perception to the symptoms observed by doctors through various instruments such as a microscope, and the increasingly specialized medical terminology was completely unfamiliar to non-medical patients, "and the only thing he could do was wait and endure." "
However, benevolent healers know that maintaining good communication with patients, feeling sympathies with their suffering, and meeting their needs are at the heart of dealing with the doctor-patient relationship. Listening to patients' complaints, patiently explaining their diagnosis and treatment options, appeasing fearful patients' families, and even simply patting patients on the shoulders and making innocuous jokes - things outside of these medical records that are not explicitly defined are actually part of the work of health care workers. If interpersonal communication is an important part of a job, the american anthropologist Arlie Russell Hochschild points out, the people in the position are not only engaged in physical and psychological labor, but also in "emotional labor", which "requires a person to induce or suppress their feelings in order to maintain a proper expression in order to create a proper state of mind in others".
The elusive street artist Banksy has re-released a new work, called Game Of Changer, with a warm breath, as a health care worker, and Banksy paid tribute to the medical staff.
May 12 is International Nurses' Day, originally set in honor of Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing and nursing education, and will be made more special and solemn in 2020 because of the outbreak of new coronal pneumonia.
Banksy's "The Force Awakens" on INS
Banksy's "The Force Awakens" depicts a little boy in strappy pants loveting a new superhero toy while Batman and Spider-Man are thrown into the trash. A closer look at the boy's toys is a nurse in a mask and red cross overalls, raising her arms, like Superman, to save the world, driving straight into a dangerous situation, unfolding the cape seems to see her busy and fearless.
The work is currently hanging in the hallway of Southampton General Hospital, a designated hospital for patients with new coronary pneumonia, and Banks left a note saying, "Thank you for everything you've done." I hope this painting will make this place brighter, even if it's only black and white. "
A spokeswoman for Banksy confirmed that after the ban was lifted, the work would be publicly displayed and sold at auction, with the proceeds donated to the NHS.
Starting at the end of March, the British public has spontaneously applauded the medical staff every Thursday at 8pm. On April 12th Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, issued a statement on Twitter saying: "It is difficult for me to put into words my gratitude to the NHS staff who saved my life and I owe them a life." At 11 am on April 27th, a minute's silence was held across the UK in memory of the medical and health care workers who died fighting the outbreak of new coronary pneumonia. According to the BBC, more than 114 health workers in the UK have died of new coronary pneumonia as of that day.
Many more turn gratitude into action. The number of APPLICATIONS for NHS jobs reached 407,000 in March, up 13,500 from the same month last year. From 9 March to 8 April, the number of views on the NHS job search page reached 907,000, significantly higher than the same period last year (620,000). Among those applying to join the NHS are more than 25,000 doctors and nurses who have left soon, such as The Nurse's Story author, Christie Watson. She said on Twitter on 28 March that she had responded to a call to return to the NHS as a nurse. "The huge public support that NHS staff have received is a great encouragement to us to tackle the most serious global health challenge in public health history. Prerana Issar, nhs chief human resources officer, said.
In distress, there will always be someone to carry the burden forward! This event is someone else, the next event may be you! The world needs progress, it needs unity and dedication!
Thank you to every medical staff around the world for their dedication! Happy holidays! I wish you a happy and healthy life!