Description
Night shift on the children’s ward, and the corridors are dim and quiet apart from the soft beeping of monitors. Nurse Amélie moves from room to room with a torch and a gentle voice, checking drips, straightening blankets, and stopping to hold the hand of a little boy who has woken from a bad dream. He asks her to stay until he falls asleep, and she does, humming under her breath. In the morning she will hand over to the day team and drive home through the sunrise, exhausted and quietly proud.
This box is a thank-you to nurses like Amélie. Shaped as a nursing book, it bears a stethoscope along with a nurse’s cap, both painted with care, small symbols of a calling that asks so much and gives back so much more. Inside there is room for a tiny keepsake, perhaps a pin from graduation or a few words of thanks from a patient. Nurses, students of nursing and new graduates will be moved by it, and it is a natural choice for Nurses Week, when it is time to celebrate the profession properly.
Up close
- Shaped as a nursing book
- A stethoscope and a nurse’s white cap rest on top
- Room for a tiny keepsake
- Its dimensions are 2.25 x 1.5 x 1.25 inches
- Brushed by hand in Limoges, a Rochard creation for the caring professions
Give it on the day a nursing pin is awarded, or after a long career spent caring for others.
