The History And Mission Of Nethersole School Of Nursing

Question 1

Establishment of the hospitals

Answer 1

1887: Alice Memorial Hospital 雅麗氏
1893: Nethersole Hospital (& Nethersole School of Nursing) 那打素
1906: Ho Miu Ling Hospital 何妙齡
1937: Queen Mary Hospital 瑪麗醫院
1954: AHNH
1973: United Christian Hospital 基督教聯合醫院
1993: PYNEH 東區尤德夫人那打素醫院 (東區醫院)
1997: AHNH at TP

Question 2

Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital (AHNH)

Answer 2

• Merged in 1954
• Governed by Executive Committee (<2008)
• Governed by Charity Foundation (>2008)

Question 3

Nethersole Spirit

Answer 3

• Based on the Love of Jesus Christ to serve the community (役於社會) with Compassionate Love (矜憫為懷) and Holistic Care (全人醫護/關顧)
• Hospital without wall

Question 4

Concepts of holistic health

Answer 4

Internal
* Physical needs (body)
* Psychological needs (mind and emotion)
* Spiritual needs (soul: meaning of life, relationship with higher power)

External
* Social needs (roles and relations)
* Environmental factors (e.g. culture, economics, politics, education, ethics, lifestyle, concept of health)

Question 5

Holistic health

Answer 5

• Comprehensive view of the whole person’s wellness
• Each part is constantly influencing all the other parts (interdependent)
• 1+1>2
• All the parts are constantly interacting with everything in the surrounding environment

Question 6

Holistic care

Answer 6

“Taking good care of yourself is a prerequisite to providing holistic care for your patients”

Question 7

Holistic nursing

Answer 7

A way of being: being a caring and healing presence
A way of living: role models for healthy and wholeness living
A way of practice: promoting caring-healing interactions to connect with the patient at a deep psychosocial and spiritual level.