Nurse Nursing Quotes

#1. Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

Steven Amsterdam

#2. Obtaining a certificate in nursing assistant trains students to provide quality care to residents in nursing homes.

Cassie Brode

#3. ...For having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

#4. Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

Anthony Trollope

#5. Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Florence Nightingale

#6. If your child comes home with a stable staff of nurses that remains stable for years without interruption, you might be a family of unicorns

Charisse Montgomery

#7. Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

Christine Bell

#8. No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

Florence Nightingale

#9. The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

Carolyn Jarvis

#10. Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.

Suzanne Gordon

#11. When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

Mary Pope Osborne

#12. If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

Finley Peter Dunne

#13. I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

Marcus Sedgwick

#14. Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

Warren Beatty

#15. And she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

Augusten Burroughs

#16. As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

#17. I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

Florence Nightingale

#18. Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

Lee Daniels

#19. When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.

Charisse Montgomery

#20. The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care.

Charisse Montgomery

#21. We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.

Rick Riordan

#22. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Clara Barton

#23. A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale

#24. Nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

Gerda Lerner

#25. Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Florence Nightingale

#26. They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing ... I bought the food for everyone.

Emilie Schindler

#27. I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

William Osler

#29. Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Norman Cousins

#30. I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start.

Roz Chast

#31. I sank into the chair and checked to see if the charge nurse could see me - not if I didn't lean out too far. The night was looking up! Two patients who ought to sleep all night long, and an Internet connection. How lucky was I? Pretty damn lucky, at least until someone needed a diaper change.

Cassie Alexander

#32. Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Florence Nightingale

#33. Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Confucius