Top Nursing Quotes Collection

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Image of Florence Nightingale
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
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.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Johanna Spyri
It (nursing) comes more from care than study.
- Johanna Spyri
Collection: Nursing
Image of Warren Beatty
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.
- Warren Beatty
Collection: Nursing
Image of Joseph Butler
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
- Joseph Butler
Collection: Nursing
Image of Monica Dickens
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.
- Monica Dickens
Collection: Nursing
Image of Caroline Norton
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
- Caroline Norton
Collection: Nursing
Image of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
As long as you're learning you're not old.
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Collection: Nursing
Image of Stephen Ambrose
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
- Stephen Ambrose
Collection: Nursing
Image of Jean Watson
Caring is the essence of nursing.
- Jean Watson
Collection: Nursing
Image of Steven Amsterdam
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
- Steven Amsterdam
Collection: Nursing
Image of Roz Chast
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
Collection: Nursing
Image of Hildegard Peplau
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century
- Hildegard Peplau
Collection: Nursing
Image of John Darnielle
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
- John Darnielle
Collection: Nursing
Image of Marvin J. Ashton
Leave people better than you found them.
- Marvin J. Ashton
Collection: Nursing
Image of Eve Hewson
The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.
- Eve Hewson
Collection: Nursing
Image of Tom Hodgkinson
Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.
- Tom Hodgkinson
Collection: Nursing
Image of Clara Barton
You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.
- Clara Barton
Collection: Nursing
Image of Clara Barton
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
Collection: Nursing
Image of Clara Barton
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
- Clara Barton
Collection: Nursing
Image of Linda Perhacs
If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.
- Linda Perhacs
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Terry Pratchett
Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of William Osler
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
- William Osler
Collection: Nursing
Image of Frank Beddor
What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)
- Frank Beddor
Collection: Nursing
Image of Martha C. Nussbaum
I think we need government to play a part in having a health policy that makes nursing care available for the increasing numbers who are going to need it.
- Martha C. Nussbaum
Collection: Nursing
Image of Desmond Tutu
Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Nursing
Image of Desmond Tutu
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Florence Nightingale
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nursing
Image of Desmond Tutu
When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Nursing
Image of Robert Burns
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
- Robert Burns
Collection: Nursing