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Dear Florence Nightingale: While In Your Grave By Nrs Ojunekwu Felix Nwanbueze (RN)

This piece is written in commemoration with Nurses globally for their efforts towards nursing our mother Earth to health and also in remembrance of our "Lady with the Lamp" Florence Nightingale whose revolutionary efforts brought Nursing to global limelight with estimated 20.3millions as Registered Professional members and more than 7.3billion people as their beneficiaries excluding those in the grave beyond where our FNG dwells too. ....

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Elizabeth Anionwu: the 'cool, black and exceptional' nurse who fought to make the NHS fairer


Elizabeth Anionwu: the ‘cool, black and exceptional’ nurse who fought to make the NHS fairer
Alex Mistlin
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When Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu was a child, she had severe eczema – bad enough to need daily dressings and slatherings of coal tar paste. Brought up in care until she was nine by nuns at the Nazareth House convent in Birmingham, she remembers this as torture. “None of the nuns were deliberately trying to hurt me, but they would tear the bandaging off and my skin would come with it,” she says.
The exception was when a nun dressed in white, rather than the usual black habit, turned up to look after her. “She would tell rude jokes and use bad words like ‘bottom’ as a form of distraction therapy,” says Anionwu. “I adored her.” When she discovered the nun’s habit was in fact a nurse’s uniform, it put her on a path. “I decided pretty early on that I didn� ....

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When Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu was a child, she had severe eczema – bad enough to need daily dressings and slatherings of coal tar paste. Brought up in care until she was nine by nuns at the Nazareth House convent in Birmingham, she remembers this as torture. “None of the nuns were deliberately trying to hurt me, but they would tear the bandaging off and my skin would come with it,” she says.
The exception was when a nun dressed in white, rather than the usual black habit, turned up to look after her. “She would tell rude jokes and use bad words like ‘bottom’ as a form of distraction therapy,” says Anionwu. “I adored her.” When she discovered the nun’s habit was in fact a nurse’s uniform, it put her on a path. “I decided pretty early on that I didn’t want to be a nun, I wanted to be a nurse.” ....

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