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Voices

Walking in the light of G-d

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MICHAEL SIEFF

At the Chev we employ 120 qualified nurses across our various facilities (in addition to more than 100 care workers). This morning’s group comprised 50 nurses who entered the hall singing “Walking in the Light of G-d” as they made their way to the podium to light their candles and sign their pledges.  

We all know that the nursing profession demands much more than a capacity for hard work.

In my speech I pulled up Maslow’s well-known Hierarchy of Needs – a motivational theory in psychology showing a five-tier model of human needs usually depicted by a triangle. 

It starts with our most basic human need for physical survival and safety, moving up to our need for love and belonging, self-esteem and finally self-actualisation.  

Though the work of providing physical care to patients and residents is taxing, at the Chev we encourage our nursing staff to pay attention to the higher level needs as well. This is how they can turn a job into a calling and stretch themselves to meet the highest levels of dedication, devotion and self-sacrifice.

Nursing Manager Prudence inspired the team by talking about the qualities that must make up the letters of the word NURSE – Nurturing, Unconditional, Responsibility, Selflessness and Empathy. “Real integrity,” she said “is doing the right thing, even when nobody will know about it.”

This attention to both fundamental and higher human needs is taught throughout the Chev Group to staff in every sector to raise the level of service we provide.  

But nursing does stand out in a league of its own. As the manager of Sandringham Gardens said: “It’s not everyone who has the privilege of welcoming new life into the world and holding someone’s hand as they cross over from this world into the next in their old age.”

That truly is thought-provoking, and inspiring.

May our partnership continue to thrive.

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