KARACHI: Holding lighting candles in their hands, some 112 nursing students of second year of the Diploma in Nursing and BSc Nursing programmes took oath at the 30th Lamp Lighting Ceremony, 2011 at Aga Khan University (AKU) School of Nursing here on Friday.
Each student pledged, “In full knowledge of the obligations, I am undertaking I promise to care for the sick with all the skill and understanding I possess without regard to race, creed, colour, politics or social status, sparing no effort to conserve life, to alleviate suffering and to promote health.”
The lamp symbolises a promise to uphold the values of the nursing profession and to follow the path set by nursing pioneers, Rufayda Al Aslamiya, the first Muslim nurse, and Florence Nightingale.
via Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Nursing students take oath to serve humanity.
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