We celebrated all our amazing nursing teams last week as we marked International Nurses Day.
Special events were held in the postgraduate centres at Wexham Park and Frimley Park on Friday, while cakes and goodies were sent out to teams on our wards.
In the postgrad centres, guest speakers gave short presentations on a range of nursing topics and there were keynote addresses from Chief of Nursing and Midwifery Lorna Wilkinson (Frimley Park) and Deputy Chief Nurses Henry Wilding and Maxine McVey (Wexham Park).
As part of the celebrations, eight representatives from our nursing team attended a special service in St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday evening to commemorate the life of Florence Nightingale.
Dee Carter, Janetta Croel-Salmon, Kelly Gray, Emma Mata, Warren Mata, Elizabeth Musrurwa, Angharad Nicholas-Podger, Nicola, Shuter, Ally Stevens, and Lorna Wilkinson joined around 2,000 nurses from across the country at the 58th Florence Nightingale Commemoration service. Many of the Frimley Health team had been nominated through their line managers to represent Frimley Park, Heatherwood, Heathlands, Wexham Park and the community.
The annual event has been running since 1965 and remembers nurses and midwives named in two rolls of honour – The Covid-19 Pandemic Roll of Honour for all those who “courageously and selflessly provided care during the pandemic” and the Commonwealth Roll of Honour to commemorate nurses who lost their lives on active service in the Second World War.
Janetta Croal-Salmon, nurse at Wexham Park’s Christiansen unit, said: “We were all in agreement that the service was beautifully done. We need to be thankful for our vocation and equally we need the health and the strength to continue, so the service was refreshing.”