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Quotes About Nursing

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.
~ Nigel Farage
At that stage of your life, there'll be no past or future for you; until I give you my breast, you'll have no memory of contentment in the past nor expectation of relief in the future. Once you begin nursing, everything will be in reverse, and all will be right with the world. NOW is the only moment you'll perceive; you'll live in the present tense. In many ways, it's an enviable state.
~ Ted Chiang
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.
~ Thomas Friedman
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
~ Lois Capps
This is a terrible country for old people. You put them away in horrible buildings that are completely shut off from life, and then do everything possible to keep them alive. It is a very stupid system.
~ Neal Stephenson
Hospice nursing is the purest kind of nursing you can do, and every day you are reminded that you walk on holy ground in preparing God's children for heaven. Hospice nursing is very intimately participating in the kingdom of God that Jesus spoke about.
~ Trudy Harris
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
~ Cassandra Clare
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace 'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary
~ Cassandra Clare
Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
~ Gerhard Kocher
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. Should
~ Giacomo Casanova
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, How might I serve? If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
~ Florence Nightingale
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
~ Barry Marshall
Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Limos is nursing one hell of a headache, and Arik wants to shove an M-80 up your ass." "Kinky," Than said, "but I'm new to the sex thing. I'm not ready for hardcore yet.
~ Larissa Ione
Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't.
~ Charles Dickens
Caring: The essence and central focus of nursing.
~ Madeleine M. Leininger, R.N.
Nurses are IV leaguers.
~ Nursing joke
I felt as if I had been confronted by a blank wall, but panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
~ Elizabeth Kenny, 1943
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
~ Terri Guillemets
Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.
~ Author Unknown
Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!
~ Donna Wilk Cardillo, R.N.
The Civil War marked a milestone in the transformation of nursing from a menial service to a genuine profession.
~ James M. McPherson
I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses.
~ James Patterson