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APRIL 2008 NEWS

Nurse Lenora Pratt along with her husband Mr. Charles W. Pratt

The Grand Bahama Health Services Public Hospitals Authority Nurses Recognition Committee honoured retired Adventist nurse, Mrs. Lenora Pratt, Nursing Officer 1, at the Paula Neymour's Noble Tea Party on Sunday, April 27, 2008. This special ceremony, under the patronage of Mrs. Paula Neymour, the "Florence Nightingale" of Grand Bahama nursing, is a major public recognition occasion. This event honoured Nurse Pratt for her "selfless and unwavering service" to the  noble profession of nursing for which she devoted some 40 years of her life as an educator, administrator and nurse par excellence.

Nurse Pratt's formal nursing education was done at The Royal College of Nursing, London, England, where she obtained Diplomas in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration. She began her nursing career in 1960 as a registered nurse at the Princess Margaret Hospital, in Nassau, Bahamas. She progressed to the Nursing Officer II level and moved to the Rand Memorial Hospital, in Freeport, Grand Bahama in February 1978. While at the Rand Memorial she advanced to Nursing Officer I as well as Administrative Officer. Nurse Lenora Pratt retired July 20, 2000. Her husband, Charles W. Pratt, is also a former Nursing Officer I with the Ministry of Health, Bahamas.

The Pratts are the proud parents of five children - Clayton, Ron and Charles "Chuck" Pratt, Jr., Kimberley Dorway and Azure Dee Russell and the proud grandparents of twelve grandchildren.

This public servant is a long servicing member of the Freeport Seventh-day Adventist Church where she served as Sabbath School Superintendent, Head Deaconess, Adventist Youth Leader, Sabbath School Teacher, Choir Member and a Member of the Dorcas Society.