In
a Christmas and New year message, the University Graduates of Nursing Science Association
(UGONSA), has saluted nurses for being the last man standing for the patient.
According
to UGONSA, nurses are with patients in thick and thin and are the most trusted
ally of the patient. Nurses are to patients what mothers are to newborns. In
the critical stage of illness, when patients cannot do anything for themselves,
nurses- the angels on earth are there. When people abandon their loved ones for
the fear of deadly infectious diseases like Ebola, Lassa fever or Covid-19,
nurses become the most intimate pals of such people standing with them and
ready to pay the supreme price rather than abandon the patients in the lurch.
The love of nurses for patients mirrors the love Jesus Christ brought to the
world. As we celebrate Christmas and prepare for the new year, may we be guided
that 2022 is a year of the patient.
“As
the number one patient advocate nurses must be bounded by our ethical
principles to ensure that the patient’s best interest in upheld at any given
time in any given scenario. We owe our allegiance to only the patient. The
patient is the reason we are in the hospital, nothing more nothing less. The
nurse being around the patient serves principally the interest of the patient
and not the physician or organizational interest. When a physician’s or organizational
interest clashes with the patient’s best interest, the nurse must strongly side
with the patient. We are the children of Nightingale; the patients are our own
Kings and Queens who we are ready to give all for. Merry Christmas and a
prosperous New Year.
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