'Nursing The Nation' by Molly Case
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Molly Case, an RCN student from London, received a standing ovation from Congress 2013 following a reading of her poem 'Nursing the nation'.
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So relevant today, what with the Covid-19 crisis. I got something in my eye there for a moment.
Molly, I've just seen this video. Your words need the widest possible audience. I still recall one of your nursing predecessors crouching down to speak to a frightened 7 year old with a broken arm. She took his hand and spoke calmly, reassured him and wiped away his tears. Amidst all the rubbish thrown at you and your fellow professionals, remember that these are the true stories and there are so many others that could be told. Our NHS staff do a fantastic job - day in day out - you are appreciated and your compassion is remembered - I know, because I was that 7 year old.
WOW, what a beautiful tribute to the things we do every day! Molly, you are truly amazing, and your nursing career is going to be just as amazing! I have been a nurse for 34 years, and yes, I get tired and disheartened, but I get up every workday to look after those that need my help.
Brought tears to my eyes.You nurses out there are fantastic people. You are all so selfless. You sacrifice social life and as for sleep, how do you cope with all the change of hours. Have nurses in the family and feel so sad at the criticisum. All those at the top are probably treated in private hospitals where there is no shortage of staff. God Bless you ALL.
From a medical student and colleague: thank you for your wonderful poem. Would be an absolute honour and pleasure to work with someone with such vision in the future.
Moly thank you, I am from Poland and i'm studing nursing, now your voice is even here, in my heart
I'm a first year student nurse and our lecturer showed us this the other day. It's amazing and so true
Wonderful girl and wonderful people. I hope the world sees this and gives thanks to the amazing nurses everywhere who go about their work and care so much when so many care so little. Thank you Molly Case.
Our family watched this and we all cried including the males....You are brilliant Molly keep writing and getting the message across.... but don;t give up on your nursing career.....nursing needs people like you....
Gerardine O'Brien
After 38 years nursing I am nearly about to retire and am very saddened by all the bad press, some of it is true and I admit to now feeling a shame creep into the pride I had in my job but hearing Molly made me cry - someone who does get the picture, who is young and I feel she has given us all hope for the future of nursing.
Thank you Molly for speaking from your heart and applauding all we, as nurses, do for society. It is so easy to watch warped perspectives of nurses portrayed on TV shows and in movies and think so little of us. It is when one experiences the compassion, caring and capability of a nurse first hand that they truly know the gift we have given them.
Thank you Molly for your beautiful words. I truly believe that the majority of nurses start out feeling like this, I know I did. That passion and dedication should be nutured in every nurse.
I hope one day the NHS will realise how very lucky they are to have such dedicated staff and start caring for them, instead of flogging them to the point of burn-out and then criticising them for being uncaring or unkind.
I had the privilege of watching Molly perform this live twice today, and was moved to tears both times. Thank you Molly - a beautiful poem with passionate delivery!
Molly you are my hero. I have spread your words and will spread it more. Thank you for your hope and inspiration. The world is so lucky to have future nurses like you. I am proud of being a nurse and you reminded me of that. I intend to use your words every time I teach nurses. Thank you.
Molly what an inspiration you are and what a big heart you have - all the best with your nursing career and may you always be as caring and positive all your living days. God Bless!!!
You did us proud Molly . I'm so proud to be part of the nursing team
what an inspiration ! this should be sent to every politician as a reminder....THIS IS A JOB...a real job!
6 years into my career and you rekindled all the wonderful reasons as to why I love what I do despite the hardships. Thanks Molly!
I just heard of this at a Falls Prevention Conference. I am a person with LTCs, I self manage as much as I can thanks to the likes of you Molly. THANK you for all of us for all you will do.
watched my life in nursing go by in technicolour as you shared your powerful words, with your passion and compassion... Deserves front page coverage on newspapers, TV and more....... Molly... thank you.....
wow - as a first year BN student I was touched and inspired by Molly's poem. how humble she is. a great tribute to a wonderful profession. glad our lecturer shared this link with us.
Beautiful....... Deserves front page coverage on newspapers, TV ..
Molly... thank you.....
Beautiful poem, touching. The media has a knack at only reporting on the negative issues surrounding nursing. I've seen good hearted nurses doing wonderful work but apparently that's not 'news worthy'. I'm a 3rd year nursing student and the vast mojority of nurses I've come across are doing the best that is humanly possible on chronically understaffed wards without the resourses or time to provide the care that patients need. Healthcare today is about profits not people, that's the real problem.
So beautifully put Molly, I shed a tear listening to your words. As Nurses we have all gone into the profession to help others and most of us do strive to give the best that we can. For every one piece of bad press there are a hundred good untold stories. I am still proud to be a nurse and proud of what I do.
An honour to know you Molly, Sue, xx,
Always here for you......
WOW! as a non-nurse I cried! What a tribute to nurses everywhere!
Molly, I'm a final year nursing student, your poem really touched me, made me cry my eyes out! Thank you, your so inspiring! x
Molly, your poem captures so much of the reality of nursing around the world. I salute your bravery in standing up and voicing a tribute to the work of nurses in your country. Thank you RCN for sharing this with the world.
So inspiring - This needs to go Viral, lets keep roaring! From a 1st year student nurse (:
I'm a first year nursing student and only started in march just gone. Just want to say thank you Molly for sharing this with us all its very inspiring. It brought tears to my eyes! Well done xx
Well done Molly, I trained nearly 40 years ago and you captured the passion I had then and still do for providing the care we all want for our fellow human beings. I have been tweeting you and hope more people see and hear your poem. We cannot let a few bad apples ruin our NHS - Thank you
As a Third year Student Nurse I found this inspiring. I feel the pressure already from repeated bad press and I haven't even started working yet and I know my fellow students feel the same.
Thank you Molly for speaking so powerfully on behalf of us all. from a fellow student. xx
An inspiration, well done! I have nursed for 30 years made me proud! Molly I want to work with you!
So glad molly did this i couldnt have said it any better....as a student nurse myself it can be heartbreaking being slashed by the press!
Molly Case has accomplished more in 4 minutes than I managed in 6 years working at the RCN - she's incredible, and reminds me of how I felt when I was 16 and fell in love with nursing...
Molly I trained over 30 years ago and it was just like you say. However, I haven't worked as a nurse for several years now and the 'bad press' has often made me worry that nursing and the NHS may be deteriorating rapidly. But, to hear you speak - on behalf of yourself and your colleagues - and to feel your passion for the vocation is truly wonderful. I think your poem may well be the salvation of the reputation of the nursing profession as well as the NHS as a whole. Very well done.
I just LOVE this poem/speech!! From a Norwegian Nurse student.
Well done Molly, very eloquent and heartfelt, you will go far! It is good to have reminders of the compassion and efforts everyday nursing evokes and not always believe the media headlines of the failings. It is almost always about resources, staffing and not about lack of care although human nature predicts that there are failures in any system that are not acceptable ever.
Thank goodness RCN Congress let Molly deliver the poem. Let's hope it makes its mark. I am doing all I can to pass it on.
I watched this video this morning, the views were 301. Checked this evening and it was 21,000. Your words were so beautiful and inspiring, nurses are amazing people and you helped to re-establish this. Well done Molly, you're an asset to the nursing community.
Absolutely beautiful Molly. Brought tears to my eyes. You'll make a wonderful nurse
I've just watched this for the first time, as a nurse of over 30 years I can identify with it so well. Wonderful words wonderfully said, and tears tripping me
Stunning, so moving, so eloquent, find a way to put what we all want to say in the face of criticism, put so beautifully,
As a student nurse, this is incredibly inspiring, putting fire in our abdomens and finally giving the nursing profession a voice against the media's ridiculous outcry. And put so beautifully too. Thank you Molly!
This amazing message deserves a bigger audience and it deserves to get picked up by mainstream media. Over 1000 shares an hour on Facebook for a day and no mainstream media is even mentioning it yet... Do they really only want to talk about all the bad in this world? If you as me are tired of this then let's keep pushing this, sharing it and talking about it... Come on folks, let's show them who is really in charge!!!
I was there to see it live, I think the whole room had tears in their eyes. Absolutely fantastic!
You've just put, so eloquently, every feeling I have, you will make such a wonderful nurse. I won't watch the news anymore, it upsets and annoys me so much to hear what the media has to say. Outstanding Molly, bless you.
What a fantastic poem Molly. I have just started my 1st year as a student nurse and have previously worked as a Nursery Nurse in SCBU. I have also been a patient and a patient's relative. As others have said there are good and bad NHS staff, however we are lucky to have the NHS!
What a lovely poem Molly. You are a wonderful credit to all our nurses. Good luck in the future.
I am only a First year Nursing student and Molly that made me shed a tear! You have certainly encouraged me and am sure many other students out there have felt the same. well done for the beautiful piece of work Molly! Good luck with your career - you will make a brilliant nurse :)
Well done Molly. And to anyone who has ANYTHING negative to say about any aspect of this poem, this message or this individual, take them to daytime tv shows. You're not welcome here.
We had this video played in our lecture with all our cohort... not a dry eye was seen. Thank you Molly and thank you RMC Congress for letting Molly speak.. we all heard you roar ;) xxx
Very nice indeed. Simple and powerful. Now such commitment and passion requires leadership to let it grow.
This is just simply HUMAN.... The will to fight for what's rite! Inspiring.
Molly will be an amazing Nurse! Thank you for sharing your beautiful poem about our career. Now please help make make this go viral Thanks!
so potent and emotive, well done Molly! Proud to be part of University of Greenwich Nurse education.
This is awesome. I have friends that are trying to be nurses. I have the most respect for the work they do
I'm a nurse who has seen morale rock bottom recently. This brought a tear to my eye. Well done Molly. Bet they won't show this on The one show, Loose women, This Morning or any of the news programmes.
THANK you from all of us for all you will do
I, like the vast majority of my colleagues, am a proud nurse doing a job I love. I hate that people with no knowledge of what nursing is can criticise without even attempting to find out what wonderful work we do on a daily basis. From washing to cardiac chest compressions, to listening and holding a hand. There is no great answer to be sought as to what the solution is, it's simple, we just need more of us.
Lovely to hear a positive side; there are more good than bad nurses; we just hear more about the bad. Made me shed a tear at the end of a long hard day.
This makes me proud to be a nurse whom studied at Greenwich University! Amazing lecturers and mentors guiding us to make us wonderful nurses!
Such beautiful words with passion for our amazinf profession!
From the heart so well said Molly. ❤
Thank you Molly. So heartening to hear this. A beautiful poem.
What a great idea! I think all nurses should be celebrated in this way -press criticism on top of 12 hour shifts and low pay is never motivating, but feeling valued and cared for and appreciated is - thanks Prof Philip for this.
Thank you for standing up for us Molly, it's a wonderful poem that brought tears to my eyes for the career I still absolutely LOVE after 30 years, you're going to go on to be a wonderful nurse, loads and tons of luck xxxx
Excellent Molly, I hate it when Nurses and student nurses are bashed in the press. They have no idea what we go through on the wards. They are completely out of touch with reality. You've summed it up perfectly. Well done.
molly your a brilliant spokeperson for what is great in nursing! great poem and delivered even better. x
Brilliant. I teared up. I left the NHS (as an SHO) for Canada but boast about it all the time. Very hard to listen to the PR attack going on. Molly, you are the majority and you've every right to be frustrated. I'm hurt on behalf of the Army that is the NHS - imperfect but amazing. Nothing like it in the world. Please carry on and don't let them break you. I hope the apathetic and entitled masses wake up and see what's going on before it's too late, if it's not already.
well done Molly, you have said it so articulately for all us nurses, thank you xx
I am a retired Doctor. I think there is a simple solution to problems in the NHS, more nurses. Good luck in your career Molly.
Then I am pleased for you, truly I am. I am a retired nurse, and I am appalled at the things that have been done to me, to my late mother-in-law, my uncle, my daughter-in-laws and that I witnessed on the ward while I was working. As I said in my first post - a lot of nurses are like your wife and how I hope I was, but there are too many who aren't.
This made me cry. Thank you Molly.
I watched this video in our lecture today,so proud to be a nurse.
Do not usually comment on you tube videos, but Molly that that was inspiring and good luck in your career
Still makes me shiver
Struggling to understand how people can have a negative view of this. Having been trashed by the government & the media it's harder to accept our own kind having a go at us. We do care, a lot and we see things and feel things. This poem is beautiful & describes things well. It is a poem & not a researched paper so it will be more emotional, as it should be. It would be nice if people stopped attacking us at every turn.
From a caring student nurse
I shared this video on Facebook last year, when it brought tears to my eyes, but have just found it again and it still did the same. I also love being a nurse but just find the medias treatment so harsh and hurtful. I also cried when I saw that episode of 'Loose Women' when they tore our vocation to shreds. Molly, you have articulated so well all the things I felt at the time. They have no idea what a shift on the ward is like. None of us are perfect, but I know that the vast majority of us try our very best with what resources we have. Thanks for your fantastic words. So powerful!
moved to tears... this is fantastic!!!
This is a very truthful piece and hearing it I know that you meant every word of it. I am a first year medical student and think the work that nurses do is invaluable. No one should underestimate the hard work they do day in and day out. I think it's great you are speaking out :)
My partner had breast cancer twice and the NHS treatment she received at Guy's/Lewisham was simply amazing. Everyone of goodwill has to oppose the Money God (as Orwell called him) and Molly's poem is a wonderful example.
Nurses are human beings too. We have motivational speakers for all other careers , why not in Nursing? Poetry, humour, art etc are all ways of expression. If it helps people see the light then so be it. Well done Molly. It is time people spoe out and had a voice.Positive mental attitude is what we need.We can never completely fix what is wrong , but we can all try and do what is right. Nurses should be encouraged by this poem and also realise that we can utilise our other gifts to do good.
Well done Molly, I've shared everywhere I can.
This is a great poem. Get it on the TV!!!
I'm a student paramedic, and I found this very moving
Molly, you are amazing and an inspiration for young nurses everywhere. It is us who are going to move nursing forward, we need to be able to stand up and do more and not just settle for turning up for work. Well done!!! We can change the ratios, we can rally for better conditions, we just need support and 'Positive Nature', this is the context I'm sure Molly meant 'we will do more' after all, other Nurses have rallied to get us where we are today and improved ratios in the past have they not?
Wonderful Molly, I'm going into my first year as a student RN and this is inspiring. You write and speak beautifully.
My Wife's a Nurse & I couldnt tell u enough about the work she does. She comes home after @ least 80% of her shifts havin no had a break, be it 2 eat or 2 go 2 the toilet (she works 12hour shifts)! My wife has spoken of the countless times she's sat with a dying patient whose family wont make it to their bedside, because she doesn't want them to die alone. My wife has been assaulted several times, including once the week before our wedding! Margaret Chapman all the nurses I know are like this!!!
This inspired me to get into spoken word. Your courage is so admirable.
Absolutely Fantastic Molly !! Your words are very inspiring and encouraging.Well done and very best wishes for the future.
Great piece, my mother and father come from a medical background, my mum recently retired as a nurse. Great stuff.....
Molly thank YOU so much. Amazing, really amazing and wonderful words!
Watched this live today I was so moved amazing!! thank you Molly
I cried. This is amazing.
Beautiful, Moving, Inspiring. Thank you Molly!! Bless you.
Thank you Molly ... your words give hope to nursing :-)
Well done Molly just perfect x why can't the world see its not the quality that's lacking its the quantity to allow nurses to be nurses !
Wow, really wonderful to listen to that sort of commitment - inspirational
My brother developed pancreatic cancer in December 2012. He was a single parent with 5 children. His nursing care, at the hospital were I received a wonderful training as a nurse, was abysmal. He was unconscious, in a dirty bed, no bed bath, no mouth care and put on the LPC. I stopped the LPC, hydrated him and he went home with his children and lived for another 5 weeks. That's why people are generalising, the care you or I deliver may be fantastic but it's not the same for everyone.