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Student nurses from across the country - including the Open University's Donna Goodman and Lisa Allen from Northern Ireland - attended a prestigious service in Westminster Abbey to commemorate Florence Nightingale, the most famous nurse in history.

Donna joined 2,500 nurses and midwives at the ceremony in May and was one ofjust 22 who took part in the Procession of the Lamp, dressed in full uniform.

Pictured are nursing students Lisa Allen and Donna Goodman with Mary Hawthorne, associate lecturer;  Ida Foster, staff tutor, and middle and Donna Gallagher, staff tutor.
 

National Nurses Day takes place on 12 May 2011 and celebrates the vital work nurses do which, includes those who have gained their nursing qualifications with the OU. The internationally recognised day showcases all that is good about nurses and nursing. Nurses day takes place annually on the birth date of Florence Nightingale who, many recognise as the founder of modern nursing.
 

• Sarah Brown supports National Nurses Day
• The Royal College of Nursing - why nurses enjoy their jobs!

 

A student nurse with The Open University has been praised after helping a man who collapsed with a heart attack.

 

Claire Thomas, 43, was in the right place at the right time when she help resuscitate a man from Keynsham, near Bristol, who fell ill while buying a newspaper.

 

The man’s wife was so grateful to “mystery nurse” Claire that she appealed via BBC News for her to come forward and the pair were later united over the airwaves of BBC Radio Bristol.

 

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Useful links

• Study with the OU – nursing

 

Picture: Student nurse Claire Thomas with heart attack victim Bill Hardingham in hospital.