Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020

In the context of the proclamation by the World Health Organization of 2020 as the International Year of Nurses and Midwives, the Department of Nursing of the Cyprus University of Technology (TEPAK), wanting to honor the work of Nurses and Midwives of Cyprus, has created an interactive trip in space and time, where the visitor will have the opportunity to get acquainted with some facts from the history of Nursing and Obstetrics in Cyprus, but also to visit online some of the premises of the Department of Nursing at TEPAK.

Due to the restrictive protection measures against the pandemic, and since a physical presence event is not offered, virtual reality was a necessary, but at the same time a pioneering choice. The project is carried out under the high protection of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, in collaboration with the Council of Nurses and Midwives of Cyprus, the Pancyprian Association of Nurses and Midwives, as well as the Patticheion Historical Archive and Study Center of the Pattiheio Municipal Museum.

Through this tribute, the Department of Nursing wants to honor the history and the valuable work performed daily by the nurses and midwives of Cyprus and their timeless contribution to the Cyprus society. In the year 2020, the world honors nurses and midwives at the same time that it is plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic, where nurses and midwives, always fighting on the front lines, are called to defend the supreme good of citizens' health, which forms the foundation upon which the happiness of people and the real forces of a state are built.

Although the profession of Nurse and Midwife pre-existed for thousands of years in Cyprus, an important milestone in the history of Nursing was the operation of the then School of Nurses and Midwives in 1945, initially with the commencementof two years of training and later in 1954 with three years of training in General Nursing where it continued its operation until 2010.

However, a key milestone in the history of Nursing Education in Cyprus was the inclusion of Nursing at the Cyprus University of Technology in 2007. The Nursing Department of TEPAK is a national reference point for Nursing education. It provides training programs that comply with the European Union’s guidelines, considering the country's needs, priorities, system and health policies. Every year, about 60-80 scientific nurses graduate from the undergraduate program, ready to staff hospitals, clinics and community structures, with a complete scientific, theoretical and practical education, as well as communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, research and leading skills in the field of health in the 21st century. The Department also offers a range of postgraduate programs that provide advanced clinical and academic skills in Intensive Care and Emergency, Oncology, Mental Health, Community Nursing and Obstetrics, as well as a doctoral program, thus supporting continuing professional, scientific and academic development.

It is impressive that with just 13 years of life the work of the Department of Nursing is recognized internationally since for three consecutive years, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, otherwise known as the Shanghai List, ranks the Department in the 100-150 best Nursing Departments internationally, from which 58 only at European level from 15 countries, putting Cyprus high on the international map.

Under the egis of the President of the Republic of Cyprus.

Use the menu on the left for greetings, photos and to see the workshops of the Department.

See below the 3D virtual navigation (3D Virtual Tour) of the laboratories of the Department of Nursing.

Project Coordinator: Department of Nursing

Faculty of Health Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology

General project supervision: Dr. Christiana Nikolaou

Cooperating agencies:

Συμβούλιο Νοσηλευτικής και Μαιευτικής

Παγκύπριος Σύνδεσμος Νοσηλευτών και Μαιών

Project contributors:

Pattichion Municipal Museum – Historical Archive – Limassol Studies Centre

Scientific Committee (CUT):

Dr Christiana Nicolaou, Dr Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Pola Tsikkou, Dr Andri Christou

Scientific Committee (Pattichion Municipal Museum – Historical Archive – Limassol Studies Centre):

Dr Mimis Sofocleous, Dr Noli Moisi, Charlotte Steffen

3D Digitization: DuooVision 3D Virtual Tours

Χαιρετισμός Πρόεδρου Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjdSeCDD81I)

Χαιρετισμός Προέδρου Τμ. Νοσηλευτικής , Αναπλ.Καθηγητή Ανδρέα Χαραλάμπους(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MAqOZbRsOg&t=1s)

Χαιρετισμός Δημάρχου Λεμεσού, κ.Νίκου Νικολαϊδη (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEisReqtT4I)

Xαιρετισμός από Πρόεδρο ΠΑΣΥΝΜ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeLho7fIjHA)

Χαιρετισμός Προέδρου Συμβουλίου Νοσηλευτών & Μαιών (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uztV52RI_4

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Χαιρετισμός Προέδρου Επιτροπής Μαιών (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apMIQQ8E-BY&t=1s)

Χαιρετισμός Γενικού Γραμματέα του Παγκόσμιου Οργανισμού Υγείας (WHO) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=savdlcDnaT4&t=1s)

Department of Nursing/Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020/Photo Gallery

Photo gallery

The set of photos below was collected with the aim to create an interactive journey in time, where the visitor will have the opportunity to get acquainted with some of yesterday’s and today’s elements of the long history of Nursing and Obstetrics in Cyprus. In view of the proclamation of 2020 as the "International Year of Nurses and Midwives" by the World Health Organization, the Department of Nursing created this tribute, wanting to honor the history and the valuable work that is performed daily by the nurses and midwives of our part of the world and their timeless contribution to the Cypriot society.

Ιt is expected that through this journey the evolutionary route of Nursing and Obstetrics in Cyprus will be seen, which has always been guided by the needs, priorities, the system and health policies of our country, always aiming at the promotion of health, disease prevention, health restoration and pain relief.

The scientific documentation of the photographic archive that follows, comes from both bibliographic research and the personal archives of people who are professionally involved in nursing. Specifically, photographic material was used from the archives of the Cyprus Nursing School, the Pancyprian Association of Nurses and Midwives, Elisavet Nikolaou, Christiana Nikolaou and Eleni Hatzigeorgiou.

Commemorative stamp for the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020

English Chief Nurse in the "Colonial Nurses Association". It was founded by English nurses in 1897.

Head sister Anna Georgiou. (Larnaca Hospital 1915 - 1933).

Nursing and other staff of the Nicosia hospital, 1901

Surgery staff before surgery at Nicosia Hospital, 1905

Nursing and medical staff of Paphos Hospital, 1935 - 1945

Building of the "School of Nurses and Midwives". On the ground floor there
were the classrooms and the teachers' offices, while on the other two floors
there was the dormitory for the students of the three-year study cycle.

Nursing and Obstetrics School staff, 2000s

Two-year study student dormitory

Official inauguration of the new building of the "School of Nurses and
Midwives" by Duchess Mountbatten, January 1960

Newspaper announcement for the construction of the new Nicosia Hospital,
which began in 1936 and completed in 1940

The design of the new Nicosia Hospital, work of the architect Poly Michailidis.

Unveiling of the "School of Nurses and Midwives" by Duchess Mountbatten, 1960

Duchess Mountbatten visits the pediatric ward of Nicosia Hospital, 1960

Nurses on a break, 1960s

Female students of the "School of Nurses and Midwives" during the theoretical training, 1960s.

Students of the Department of Nursing of the Cyprus University of Technology during their theoretical training at the amphitheater Tassos Papadopoulos.

Female students of the "School of Nurses and Midwives" during the theoretical training, 1960s.

Students of the "School of Nurses and Midwives" of the three-year course in the living room of the boarding school 1960s.

Students of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus on a break, 1990s.

Nurses on a break, 1960s.

Nurses souvenir photo, 1960s.

Graduates of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 2004.

Teaching Anatomy at the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s.

Students of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", during the theoretical training of Anatomy, 1960s.

Graduates of the "School of Nurses and Midwives" after their graduation ceremony in the 1960s.

Grading of Cyprus Nursing and Obstetrics School students, 2000s

Graduates of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s

Publication of the Law on Nursing and Obstetrics, during the British occupation in 1951

Participation of the Cyprus Nursing School in the Cyprus Educational Fair, 2000s

Provision of nursing care in the pediatric ward of the old hospital of Nicosia, 1960s

Clinical training of students of the Cyprus Nursing School in the pediatric department of the Archbishop III Hospital, Nicosia, 2000s

Pediatric ward of Nicosia hospital, 1960s

Provision of nursing care in a pediatric ward of the Nicosia hospital, 1960s

Provision of care to a newborn in the Obstetrics department of the Nicosia hospital, 1960s

Midwifery and newborn care by midwives during the COVID pandemic - 19, 2020

Head Nurses with the first President of the Republic of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios III, 1960s

Turkan Aziz, with the first Minister of Health of the newly formed Republic of Cyprus Manyera Niyazi (1960).

The first Chief Nurse of Cyprus Turkan Aziz, 1960

Visit of the Turkish Cypriot politician Fazil Küçük to the Pediatric Department of the Nicosia Hospital (1960).

Awarding of diplomas by the Minister of Health Dina Akkelidou at the graduation ceremony of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 2004

Nurses and staff of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s

Representatives of the International Nursing Council together with Tassos Papadopoulos, 1960s

Conference of the International Nursing Council, 1970s

Conference of the International Nursing Council, 1979

Conference of the International Nursing Council, 1970s

Welcome of the President of the Republic of Cyprus Spyros Kyprianou to the festive event of May 12, International Nurses Day, 1981

Visit of the Minister of Education and Culture Pefkios Georgiadis to the stand of the Nursing School at the Cyprus Educational Fair, 2005.

Welcome of the President of the Republic of Cyprus Glafkos Clerides to the graduation ceremony of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 2001

Students of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1974

Nursing staff of Larnaca hospital (top) and nursing and medical staff of Famagusta hospital (bottom), 1950

Conference of the International Council of Nurses, 1980s

Theoretical training at the Cyprus School of Nursing and Obstetrics, 1990s

Students in the library of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 2000s

Library of the Cyprus University of Technology

Library of the Cyprus School of Nursing and Obstetrics (1960 - 2010)

Students of the School of Nursing and Obstetrics on a break, 1990s

Care of premature newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital Archbishop Makarios III, Nicosia, 1990

Infant care in the Pediatric Ward of the General Hospital of Nicosia. 1980s.

Graduates of the first Transitional Intensive Care Program of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 1987

Graduation of Cyprus Nursing and Obstetrics School students, 2004

Graduates of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s

Graduation ceremony of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 2001

Awarding a diploma to a Cypriot Health Visitor in Greece, by the Queen of Greece Frederick, 1960s.

Graduation ceremony of the Cyprus School of Nursing and Obstetrics 2000

Nursing and Obstetrics School staff, 2000s.

Graduation ceremony of the Cyprus Nursing and Obstetrics School, 1998

National anniversary parade of students of the Nursing and Obstetrics School of Cyprus, 2000s

Participation of the Cyprus Nursing School in the Cyprus Educational Exhibition, 2000s

Graduation ceremony of the Cyprus Nursing and Obstetrics School, 1998

Festive event of International Midwifery Day, May 5, 2016

Members of the European Midwifery Association

1st Cyprus Midwifery Committee, 2016

Visit to the Archaeological Museum of Cyprus, members of the International Council of Nurses, 1970s

Graduates of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s

Laboratory teaching of nursing students of the Cyprus University of Technology

Clinical practice of Nursing students in an Intensive Care Unit

Department of First Aid of the General Hospital of Nicosia, 1960s

Female students outside of the two-year boarding school in the 1960s

Nicosia General Hospital immediately after its construction, 1940

Graduation ceremony of Cyprus University of Technology

Midwife registration certificate, 1953

Graduates of the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s

Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020/Labs

Labs

Basic Nursing

Pathological Nursing

Anatomy

Obstetrics

Nursing Surgery

Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020/Labs/Anatomy

Anatomy

In the Anatomy laboratory students have the opportunity to practice with models and other audiovisual media that help them understand and consolidate the theoretical part of the course. In the Anatomy laboratory, students gain detailed knowledge of the structure and function of the human body, understand and explain the systems of the human body.

Teaching Anatomy at the "School of Nurses and Midwives", 1960s

Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020/Labs/Basic Nursing

Basic Nursing

In the Basic Nursing course laboratory, students have the opportunity to develop technical skills for providing health care and problem solving. Students consolidate the theory gained and develop the skills necessary for a professional nurse to provide safe care to his / her patients.

Nursing souvenir photo, 1960s

Student of the Cyprus Nursing School during his clinical practice in the 2000s

Urine analysis by a student in the Laboratory of the Cyprus Nursing School, 2000s

A student measures the drops of Intravenous Fluids to calculate their flow time, using her watch. This process stopped after the introduction of machines that automatically measure the drops of intravenous fluids.

Nursing students attend patient care provided by nurses in the 1960s

Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020/Labs/Obstetrics

Obstetrics

In the Laboratory of the Postgraduate Program in Obstetrics the future professional midwives / obstetricians have the opportunity to consolidate the advanced obstetric knowledge and skills for autonomous, effective, safe, quality and research-based obstetrics practice that complies with the relevant legislation and international law. science.

Midwife bag with the necessities for performing home delivery

Newborn and mother care by midwife

Glass syringes and needles that were sterilized and reused

Wooden baby scales

Case with medication ampoules

Infant feeding by a student of the School of Nursing and Midwifery under the supervision of a clinical instructor, 1980s

Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020/Labs/Pathology Nursing

Pathology Nursing

In the laboratory of Pathological Nursing the students have the opportunity to consolidate the theoretical and clinical knowledge for the provision of personalized care with the method of the nursing process in adult patients with acute or chronic pathological diseases and are facilitated by the application of knowledge gained in previous courses in clinical practice.

Wooden sphygmomanometer

Patient care in a single ward at the old General Hospital of Nicosia 1980s

Administration of drugs by a student of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, 1980s

Patient care at the Men's Pathology of the old General Hospital of Nicosia

Faculties

Faculty of Health Sciences

Department of Nursing

Celebration of the International Year of Nurses and Midwives 2020

Labs

Surgery Nursing

In the Laboratory of Nursing Surgery students have the opportunity to consolidate the concepts related to the care of an adult with acute care needs especially in relation to surgical nursing from the moment the patient prepares and is guided for the impending surgical procedure until the pre-operative period, the phase of surgery, the recovery, the post-operative nursing care and the rehabilitation.

Operating room before surgery in the 1950s

Preparation of sterile needles for surgery, 1950s