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BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 18, Number 7 “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” Confucius --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2012 Cub Scout Roundtable March 2012Core Value & Pack Meeting Ideas COMPASSION PLANTING SEEDS OF KINDNESS Tiger Cub, Wolf, Webelos, & Arrow of Light Meetings 13 and 14, Bear (Mtgs A and B), CORE VALUES Florence Nightingale Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide The core value highlighted this month is: How could I choose anyone else besides a nurse as an example of Compassion?? Especially after being married to Resourcefulness: Using human resources and other one for over 35 years?? CD resources to their fullest. Through participating in the pack recycling projects, boys will gain an understanding "A nurse is compassion in scrubs." Lexie Saige of the ways to utilize available resources to accomplish tasks. They will learn that one of the ways to be Florence Nightingale's lasting contribution has been her role in resourceful is using their imaginations. founding the modern nursing profession. She set an example of compassion, commitment to patient care, and diligent and COMMISSIONER’S CORNER thoughtful hospital administration. Florence Nightingale was a nurse in the British Army and gave up her aristocratic life to “Teach this triple truth to all: take up a job, with what was considered to be a beggars profession. She thought nursing was a form of 'divine calling' A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of during her young years. She was sent to the army hospital service and compassion are the things during the Crimean War and was appalled by the pathetic which renew humanity.”. conditions of the hospitals. She soon began advocating clean up of the hospitals, as it was the main cause of the soldier's Buddha death. Here, she tapped her mathematical and statistical talents to analyze medical data. She became a hero throughout the world with her compassion for the patients, dedication to duty, Find all 12 of the Theme Based pack Meeting and contributions to nursing profession. Themes right here in Baloo!! Hope you enjoy! I am off for 10 weeks in Mississippi - but I will have my phone and computer!! Born to a comfortable family, Florence Nightingale was educated by governesses and then by her father, with her older sister, Parthenope. She was familiar with the Greek and Latin If you are a RT Commissioner in the Vicksburg, Port classical languages, and modern languages of French, Gibson, Natchez, Jackson area - let me know. I would German, and Italian. She also studied history, grammar, and like to drop in!! [email protected] philosophy. At twenty, she overcame parental objections to receive tutoring in mathematics. BALOO'S BUGLE - (March 2012 Ideas) Page 2 Called to a Mission in Life: in 1858. She also became involved -- from London -- in On February 7, 1837, Florence Nightingale heard, by her advising on sanitation in India. account, the voice of God telling her that she had a mission in Florence Nightingale was quite ill from 1857 until the end of life. It took her some years of searching to identify that her life, living in London, mostly as an invalid. She used the mission. This was the first of four occasions where Florence privacy provided by the disease to continue her writing Nightingale said she heard the voice of God. choosing when to receive visits from people. By 1844, over parental objections, Florence Nightingale chose In 1860 she founded the Nightingale School and Home for a different path than the social life and marriage expected of Nurses in London, England, using funds contributed by the her by her parents -- she chose to work in nursing, which was public to honor her work in the Crimea. In 1861, she helped then not quite a respectable profession for women. inspire the Liverpool system of district nursing, which later Florence Nightingale went to Kaiserwerth in Prussia to spread widely. experience a German training program for girls who would By 1901, Florence Nightingale was completely blind. The serve as nurses. She worked briefly for a Sisters of Mercy King awarded her the Order of Merit in 1907, making hospital near Paris. Her views began to be respected. Florence Nightingale the first woman to receive that honor. Florence Nightingale in the Crimea: Florence Nightingale declined the offer of a national funeral When the Crimean War began, reports came back to England and of burial at Westminster Abbey, requesting that her grave about terrible conditions for wounded and sick soldiers. be marked simply. Florence Nightingale volunteered to go to Turkey, and at the urging of a family friend, then secretary of state at war. "Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring Thirty-eight women, including 18 Anglican and Roman without even a prescription." Val Saintsbury Catholic sisters, accompanied Florence Nightingale to the warfront. Other Famous Nurses From 1854-56, Florence Nightingale headed nursing efforts in As you read above, Nursing was a profession that was taken up English military hospitals in Scutari, Turkey. She established by girls and women of the lower class during the 19th century. more sanitary conditions and ordered supplies, beginning with It was not considered to be a well accepted profession for clothing and bedding. She gradually won over -- at least women and the public perception of nurses was not very high. enough to get cooperation -- the military doctors. She used But, women like Florence Nightingale with their selflessness significant funds raised by the London Times. About her The and desire, to help people in need, changed the outlook of Times wrote: "She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any society towards nursing. Nurses became the backbone of the exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides medical profession, without whom the sick and injured would quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens have been lost. During war-time, the duties of nurses made with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers them front-runners in hospitals, who gave emotional support to have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled the injured soldiers away from home. They became the most down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed respected women who not just lent a helping hand, but alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary compassionately lent a patient ear to the sick who wanted to rounds." share their woes. Famous nurses throughout history helped change the future of medicine with their courage and Soon, Florence Nightingale focused more on administration intelligence. Here are some famous nurses in history who will than on actual nursing. But she continued to visit the wards, always be admired by the medical community for their and to send letters back home from injured and ill soldiers. Her rule that she be the only woman in the wards at night compassionate acts and altruistic dedication. earned her the title "The Lady with the Lamp." The mortality Famous Nurses in the Civil War rate at the military hospital fell from 60% at her arrival to 2% Civil war has seen many heroes emerge from different walks of six months later. life, and women were not left far behind with their acts of Florence Nightingale applied her education and interest in courage. Many women dedicated their life to help the sick and mathematics to develop statistical analyses of disease and injured men from war and get them back to their feet mortality, inventing the use of the pie chart. Dorothea Dix Florence Nightingale fought both a not-too-willing military She was a US nursing pioneer who was a strong advocate for bureaucracy and her own illness with Crimean fever to the mentally ill patients and even prisoners. She was the driving eventually become general superintendent of the Female force behind the first mental asylums to be started in the United Nursing Establishment of the Military Hospitals of the Army States. She was not only an outspoken social activists, but also (March 16, 1856). was the Civil War Superintendent of Union Army of Nurses. Dorothea Dix asked the MA legislature for reforms in 1843 to Return to England: end the inhumane conditions the mentally ill were kept in. Florence Nightingale was already a heroine in England when she returned, though she actively worked against the adulation Mary Ann Bickerdyke of the public. She helped to establish the Royal Commission She was known as 'Mother Bicjerdyke' who cared for thousands on the Health of the Army in 1857, and gave evidence to the of Union soldiers in 1861. She is known to run army field commission and compiled her own report, published privately hospitals all by herself. Mary Ann Bickerdyke was the only woman who could enter Sherman's camps. BALOO'S BUGLE - (March 2012 Ideas) Page 3 Mary Todd Lincoln Compassion Songs ............................................................ 26 Mary Todd Lincoln was not only the first lady of America, but Fun Songs .......................................................................... 27 a tireless nurse. She was well-educated woman from STUNTS AND APPLAUSES ............................................ 29 Lexington, Kentucky who married Abraham Lincoln. She is APPLAUSES & CHEERS ................................................ 29 remembered for her dedication in tending wounded soldiers RUN-ONS ........................................................................

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