English IX - Chapter No.15 - Words / Meaning and Summary

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Nursing

Words And Meanings

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Ailing	Ill
2.	Aim	Goal
3.	Comfort	Solace
4.	Competent	Expert
5.	Cultured	Civilized
6.	Distress	Suffering
7.	Feelings	Emotion
8.	Helpless	Needy
9.	Injured	Wounded
10.	Management	Supervision
11.	Military	Army
12.	Present	Gift
13.	Regard	Think
14.	Regularly	Without break
15.	Sympathy	Compassion
16.	Tend	To take care
17.	Wounded	Injured
18.	Young	Youngster
19.	Noble	Decent
20.	Nightingale	A single bird
21.	Give in	Surrender
22.	Declare	State
23.	Offer	Give
24.	Organize	Set up
25.	Inquire	Ask
26.	Institution	Institute
27.	Shock	Stun
28.	Battle	Fight
29.	Take care of	Look after
30.	Role	Part
31.	Struggle	Try
32.	Restore	Normalize

Short Note Or Summary On Nursing

Nursing means taking care of and looking after the sick, the injured, the young, the old or the helpless with love and sympathy. It is difficult to say when nursing was organised in a scientific way. However it is as old as is man's feeling for his suffering fellow men.
Islam regards nursing very important. Our Holy Prophet(peace be upon him) visited the sick regularly, comforted them and spoke kind words to them. He would go to inquire the welfare even of his ailing enemies. He urged the Muslims to help the sick or suffering. On the battlefield, all Muslim soldiers were always very kind to the sick, old and the injured. They never killed their wounded enemies. The Muslim ladies were very active on the battlefield giving water to the soldiers and tending the wounded and the sick. Hazrat Ghifaria, who accompanied the Holy Prophet in the Battle of Khyber, was a very good nurse. The Holy Prophet established a hospital in Madina and placed it in the charge of a very competent nurse, Hazrat Rufaida.
Nursing was not at all popular in the beginning. Parents did not allow their daughters to become nurses. As shown in the story of the girl, Florence Nightingale who in 1851 became the founder of modern nursing and one of the greatest women in history.
Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820. Her parents were wealthy and cultured English people and expected her to marry in a noble family. But she had other ideas. She thought that the aim of her life was to serve suffering humanity. So she decided to become a nurse. Everybody in her family opposed her but she did not give in. She competent a training at the Kaiserswerth Institution of Nursing in Germany.
In 1853, she managed a small hospital for sick women in London. In 1854 during England-Russia war, the British Government asked her to manage the military hospitals in Crimea. She played a great role in the war and was awarded £ 45000 for her services in the war. She established an institution of nursing in London with that money.