Nurse Quotes - Page 16

• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.

  Jamie Ford

  Beautiful, Air, Chinese

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• I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Jobs, Fire, Hands

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.220, Macmillan

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• Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Bed, Patient

  British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

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• The pretty nurse had just injected her with something that totally rocked, and if she wanted to think about boinking a bronzed, tattooed, impossibly handsome doctor who was so far out of her league she need a telescope to see him, then screw it. Screw him. Over and over.

  Larissa Ione

  Thinking, Doctors, League

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• Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Medicine, Want

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• Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tea, Dying, Watches

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

  Julia Glass

  Rain, Joy, Solitude

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

  Boyle Roche

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Obstacles

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nursing

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• We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?

  Ann Widdecombe

  Jobs, Hunting, Order

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• After two days in the hospital, I turn to the nurse.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Health, Two

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• Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Discovery, Blood

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• Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Taken, Breathing, Rooms

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.171, St. Martin's Press

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• It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

  Louise Hay

  Mistake, Learning, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 25, 2013

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• Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Two, Life Sucks, Humanity

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• I recollect a nurse called Ann,
  Who carried me about the grass,
  And one fine day a fine young man
  Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
  She did not make the least objection.
  Thinks I, "Aha,
  When I can talk I'll tell Mama,"
  And that's my earliest recollection.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Men, Thinking, Mama

  Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”

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• 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

  Art, Nursing, World

  Suzanne Gordon (2012). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.19, Cornell University Press

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• Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Friendship, Mother, Skills

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• One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.

  Anna Holmes

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.

  Dick Morris

  Dog, Blue, Doctors

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• Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Boys, Insanity

  Song: Talkin' World War III Blues, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Mother, Breakup

  "Toni Morrison On Human Bondage And A Post-Racial Age". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2008.

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• 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

  Attitude, Nursing, Characteristics

  Gerda Lerner (2014). “The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History”, p.16, UNC Press Books

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