The Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital (BTPH) in China, which specialises in neuroscience, has declared its support for the Nightingale Declaration Campaign.
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| The Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital |
The statement issued by Li Qing, Director of Nursing and Yang Shi Chun, Hospital Director on behalf of the Nursing Department, Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital, states:
"We, the nurses of the Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital , declare our willingness to support the Nightingale Declaration, which is a program to achieve a healthy world by 2020. From now on, we will work harder to carry out our responsibility to care for people's health, to share healthy information among the public so as to contribute our effort to the benefit of people all over the world."
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| Li Qing, Director of Nursing, Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital |
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"We, the nurses of the Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital, declare our willingness to support the Nightingale Declaration, which is a program to achieve a healthy world by 2020. From now on, we will work harder to carry out our responsibility to care for people's health, to share healthy information among the public so as to contribute our effort to the benefit of people all over the world." | Adjacent to the imperial Temple of Heaven, a world heritage site three times the area of the Forbidden City, the Beijing Tiantan Puhua Hospital represents an advanced model of medical care.
The hospital treats patients not only from China, but from many other countries throughout the world as well.
During a recent trip to China, two members of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health's (NIGH) team, Dr. Deva-Marie Beck, Co-director, NIGH and Mr. Wayne Kines, Global Communications Director, NIGH met with the nursing staff of the Tiantan Puhua Hospital.
During the discussion, the nurses at the hosptial wholeheartedly agreed to support the Nightingale Declaration Campaign and were very enthused with their opportunity to participate. These meetings were facilitated by Liu Li Hong, one of the Chief Nurses at Tiantan Puhua Hospital.
While in Beijing, the NIGH team learned about nursing in China. Every year, the President of China awards Florence Nightingale Medals to nurses, who contribute greatly to China's medical and health services. Florence Nightingale is well respected across China. They call her "Nan Ting Ger". Every nursing student in China reads a short essay, in English, about her as they begin their nursing lessons.
There are an estimated 1.5 million nurses in China, but this only represents 1 nurse per 1000 people. China needs many more nurses and nursing educators and more attention to nursing's professional development to meet its growing demand for improved health care and recent government commitment to quality health for all its citizens by the year 2020.
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