Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
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.
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
Leave people better than you found them.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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.
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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