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In her daily practice, the nurse is forced to address existential issues with patients, to help patients manage their fears and anxieties about the future and to motivate them to cooperate. Gabriela Valentová, a station nurse in the chemotherapy outpatient clinic, knows all about it. Patients visit us at regular intervals, often for long periods of time, so we become their partners who accompany them during their treatment. We often know their family members, close friends and friends, and we know their wishes, needs and problems. Sometimes it is a difficult task to care for cancer patients, but their thanks and appreciation is a great motivation for us," she says.
The International Council of Nurses commemorates this important day each year by creating and distributing an International Nurses Day package. The theme for 2015 is "Nurses: drivers of change, cost-effectiveness and care". Nurses have proven to be agents of change in the past, just like the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. She rejected the authority and dogma that was associated with the way patients were cared for at the time. She emphasised the care of the patient and the environment in which they were in. She pioneered the collection and recording of hospital data on illness and surgery, and used basic statistical methods to evaluate new nursing practices that led to improved health outcomes for hospitalized patients. She considered it important that nurses be educated and succeeded in establishing the first school of nursing.
"I believe that in each one of us there is a "driving force" that can make a difference, care with empathy, defend patients' rights and strengthen the position of nurses in society. However, if we want to be partners with doctors, to work as a team, we must also demonstrate our professional skills, knowledge and abilities," said Mgr. Eva Koblížková, Ph.D, head nurse of the oncology department of Multiscan, s.r.o. in Pardubice, who thanked her colleagues for their demanding work and wished them a lot of strength and optimism on the International Nurses' Day.
