Nurse's Week May3-9

Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910 credited as being the
Founder of modern nursing.

During the week of May 3-9 is nurse's week.  Under the circumstances, I thought it would be an incredible thing to celebrate men and women that are on the front line today.

"Nursing professionalized rapidly in the late 19th century as larger hospitals set up nursing schools that attracted ambitious women from middle- and working-class backgrounds. Agnes Elizabeth Jones and Linda Richards established quality nursing schools in the U.S. and Japan; Linda Richards was officially America's first professionally trained nurse, having been trained at Florence Nightingale's training school, and subsequently graduating in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston

In the early 1900s, the autonomous, nursing-controlled, Nightingale-era schools came to an end. Despite the establishment of university-affiliated nursing schools, such as Columbia and Yale, hospital training programs were dominant. Formal "book learning" was discouraged in favor of clinical experience through an apprenticeship. In order to meet growing demand, hospitals used student nurses as cheap labor at the expense of quality formal education.^[58]"

 Art/ Craft:
Supplies:

• Paint
• markers
• paintbrush
• clothespins
• toothpicks

I used acrylics but any paint will do.

I painted both sides and pulled the wire out prior to painting.

I did use a very sharp pencil to draw my design.

And Voila! finish with a thank you note and mail it to the nurses that are the heroes in your community!

Math:

I wanted to discuss decimals for a bit.  When I was a kid, I recall not quite grasping why decimals.  It hit me when I began relating to money.

For instance,  2(how many quarters I have) quarters (0.25) 2x.0.25=0.50. In money problems, you place a $ sign. We are omitting that because the problem isn't actually a money problem. The money is there to connect the relationship.

Books:

 My Mom is a Nurse by Candy Campbell R.N.
Nurse Clementine by Simon James
Nola the Nurse by Dr. Sharmaine L. Baker, LP.
There is a Nola blog as well!