作者Margaret Heale, RN, MSc, CWOCN
又是马利护士长。希望你们过了一个愉快的感恩节。我女儿点了中餐,她的孩子们都很兴奋。我偷偷溜到疗养院,在那里我自愿和居民们一起吃了坚果烤肉(当然,他们吃了火鸡)。假期即将来临,这让我改变了对这封信的看法。活动板上充满了艺术、工艺品和圣诞欢乐,但养老院的工作人员没有午夜颂歌。我告诉他们,我早年在医院当护士长时,我们会在午夜聚在一起,带着灯,披着斗篷,这样红色的衬里就显得很有节日气氛。从小儿科病房开始,我们唱着圣诞颂歌,从一个病房走到另一个病房。他们大多是南丁格尔的病房,而且相当分散。穿过所有十个房间花了不少时间。 Ending at around midnight in my dining room (Matron's dining room was where the sisters and senior nurses hung out for breaks and meals), we would finish carol singing by drinking hot chocolate and eating mince pies or Bourbon biscuits (a finger like chocolate cookie, fathomly different from an Oreo). My mind continued to reminisce and so I wrote you this: