Nursing Symbols
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The International Nurse’s Day
The International Council of Nurses announced May 12th – a Florence Nightingale’s birthday – the International Nurse’s Day in 1965. Meaning:
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A nursing pledge
Student’s and graduate’s moral obligations placed against a school or the whole society, profession, group. Pledge’s text has been changing, however it has always contained…
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A ceremony of nursing stripes awarding
A professional ceremony when a velvet, 1 cm wide ribbon was placed horizontally or vertically along a nursing cap’s facing, referring to a history of…
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A ceremony of nursing caps awarding
A professional ceremony organized as a first level nursing initiation, when nursing students received white nursing caps without stripes. A ceremony meaning
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Florence Nightingale olive-oil lamp
Nursing care as a source of reliability, goodwill, warm – regardless time and place. Personal – referring to Florence Nightingale as creator of modern nursing…
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The nursing hymn
A solemn laudatory song praising lofty ideas and respectable acts of nurses, sung during professional ceremonies. Usually consists of four stanzas, in practice often modified…
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A nursing uniform
In historical and symbolic aspect it is a dress consisting of a cap, an apron (usually made from grey linen or white crossed apron called…
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A nursing cap
A cap is also an element of a dress of many feminine religious convents. Caps were worn with veils, round or of a butterfly shape.…
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Nursing Symbols
Nursing has been granted great significance for centuries – its’ mission, service, particular tasks in the society. Nursing as a profession begins with establishment of…