Blessing of the hands - Nurses Week

Nurses Week, Blessing of the Hands Ceremony, Charleston, SC

Bless these hands

May they be instruments

of compassion,

love and healing.

 

Wednesday Hodge Podge

Magnolia Gardens, Charleston, S.C.

You know how much I love Magnolia Gardens. I feature it often enough and keep an annual pass for myself but, if you don't have an annual pass you can get into the gardens for free on Friday. Go for it! Take the day off too healthy to work. I'll write you a note (unless you work for me). Find the details here. I believe you need to print a coupon and it doesn't include guided tours or the Audubon Swamp garden. The coupon is good for National Public Gardens so if you don't live in Charleston it may still apply closer to home.

Yeah, yeah....happy Nurses Week! Today is Florence Nightingale's birthday. Let's have some cake.

We had some fun again doing Florence Nightingale photo ops with old Nursing props. It is amazing what an empty frame works for a picture. Everyone got to be the Lady with the Lamp even a couple "Floyd Nightingales".

Check this out - eight year old kid came up with an invention to keep your book from getting wet when you read in the tub. Brilliant!

I have had a love hate relationship with the news lately. This business of the kidnapping in Cleveland of the three girls is mind boggling but hard to turn off. The election results in my district disappointed me. In other news, it has stopped raining.

Crazy busy days at work lately. I stopped on the way home to buy gas and picked up a lottery ticket. I figure if I won the jackpot I'd still go to work - as a volunteer instead of the volunteer director. Harhar.

G'night kids.

Nurses' Week - the Blessing of the Hands

The Blessing of the Hands, Nurses Week, Charleston, S.C.

Happy Nurses Week to all the nurses in my life. Love you ladies and gentlemen! Your love and friendship has made my life an interesting ride.

We begin Nurses Week with a Blessing of the Hands ceremony. It always brings home what nurses actually do, laying hands on people to heal and care for them.

Busy week activities

Olde Towne Vet Clinic, Pinckney St., Charleston, S.C.

Even our Vet Clinic is kinda cute, isn't it? This is the Olde Towne Vet Clinic next to the horse barn downtown. I used to take my cat to this clinic.

How come almost every day since I moved off the peninsula I've had to drive into town for a meeting including the afternoon it poured rain? Does that seem fair? I wasn't supposed to have to worry about flooding anymore. Hmmmph.

Crazy week with ups and downs. It was Nurse's Week and since we have hundreds of nurses on staff we make a big deal about that. They had a "decorate a nurse's hat" activity and wore sparkly, festive hats all day.

They celebrated Florence Nightingale's Birthday with a party and fundraising activities for Nursing Scholarships and yes, some of them still had their old white uniforms or wore vintage outfits.

A "Blessing of the Hands" ceremony was held for the nurses.

....and we had fun with a Florence Nightingale photo op....

whooops.....that was an old urinal I had in my closet as a prop ;)

We were happy to celebrate "Floyd Nightingale" as well. Heheh. Times change!  I hope you hugged a nurse this week!

Nurses Week Festivities

Charleston, S.C.

The nurses at the Friendly Little Hospital across the River, hold a contest each year to Create a Nurse from supplies on hand. Check out bed pan head! You have to spend a little time close up and personal to realize the creative work that has gone into these new staff members.

Although they left these characters at their stations, the rest of the nurses gathered under the oaks in the garden this evening to celebrate earning Magnet Hospital credentialing. Woohoo! I do work with an impressive team.