Jodi Picoult Quotes About Nurses

Quotes about: Nurses

• Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Nursing, Doctors

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.894, Simon and Schuster

• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Nursing, Games

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

• The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doctors, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

• It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doctors, Nurse, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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