Dr. Trudeau's epitaph: "Sometimes it is cured, often it helps, always it comforts." This is a famous saying of every medical worker. If the cure is at the medical level, then help and comfort are more at the level of care, love and nursing.

Many times, nursing is more important than medical treatment. Florence nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, put forward this theory.

Florence nightingale was born in a wealthy family with good knowledge and upbringing. Because she participated in the rescue of the wounded in the Crimean War, the death rate of the wounded dropped from 40% to 2%, and she was known as the "Lantern Goddess". She established the first nursing school in Britain. Started a nursing career.

Nightingale's interpretation in China is basically these. Just the discoverer of nursing skills. Her medical thoughts and works are rarely mentioned. In fact, she was the first person to put forward the idea of "nursing as the center" medical model, and made clear the value choice of "nursing is more important than medical treatment" in medicine.

In today's high-tech medical background, the reason why we advocate nursing as the center is precisely because we see that the development of medical technology has not reduced the harm caused by diseases, and has not improved patients' satisfaction with medicine. We should re-examine the value of medicine.

Nursing is a skill to keep healthy and promote the recovery of diseases. Not only hospitals, but also nurses, but the ability that everyone in the whole society should have. Only in this way can the good wishes of national health be realized.

Nightingale wrote in her book Nursing Notes:

Almost everyone has taken care of other people's health in life, whether it is taking care of children or taking care of patients. Everyone should learn to nurse. How to keep people from getting sick or recovering after illness and how to take care of others' health correctly are becoming more and more important. Nursing will produce inestimable value to national health. Everyone is a caregiver (nurse) and a guardian of health.

She pointed out that this disease is not only the result of physical and mental damage, but also the process of physical and mental suffering. Complete treatment should not only focus on blocking and repairing organic injuries, but also save those physical and mental pains such as anxiety, sadness, depression, disappointment and even despair. Nursing is to promote and optimize the rehabilitation process of diseases through nursing.

She also put forward the idea of public health care, arguing that preventive medical services should be provided through community organizations.

Caring is not only a technology, but also a warm culture with dignity and humanity. This kind of care is not only the work of nurses, but also the care and care of patients by doctors and other personnel.

As Professor Wang of Peking University Institute of Medical Humanities said, advocating caring as the center in the high-tech context can not only alleviate the excessive commitment and expectation brought by technicalism, but also achieve the ultimate technical effect with good professional care.

Follow up:

Medical technicalism urges our medical care to be keen on process service, operating medical devices and completing technical treatment.

Let's look at a patient's description of medical staff:

This is the largest specialized hospital in Beijing, and the medical technology and equipment reassure me. Doctors and patients are polite to each other and step by step. Every day, when making rounds, the doctors will file in and stand in front of your bed in turn, asking for help, but you feel that all these are completing the established procedures, step by step, accurately and indifferently. No one will consider your mood. They only care about your pulse and breathing.

Nurses are young and beautiful, with the same solemn expression on their faces and the same dry and steady voice. When answering your questions, they won't stop or look back ... The contact with the patient is a walkie-talkie and a tweeter. The horn hung over my head, and I was always awakened by a sudden burst of soprano-either calling the patient to the nurse's station to get the medicine or urging the patient's family to pay the bill.

When the nurse appears in front of my eyes, she is always in a hurry. At the same time, she will accompany her to take her temperature, reach for the thermometer and turn around and leave. Either "blood transfusion", then lift a slender finger and grope on the back of my hand, so there is tingling conduction. Next, I can only stare at the drops of medicine in the bottle alone, ready to shout "medicine is gone" into the intercom at any time. The nurse came at the call, but she didn't talk nonsense. She whooshed out the needle and floated away.

-"Rebirth Notes" Ling Zhijun