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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.Collection: Nursing
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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?Collection: Nursing
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
It (nursing) comes more from care than study.Collection: Nursing
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.Collection: Nursing
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for foodCollection: Nursing
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
As long as you're learning you're not old.Collection: Nursing
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.Collection: Nursing
Caring is the essence of nursing.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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 centuryCollection: Nursing
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.Collection: Nursing
Leave people better than you found them.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilizationCollection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.Collection: Nursing
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!Collection: Nursing
I use the word nursing for want of a better.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.Collection: Nursing
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.Collection: Nursing
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)Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Nursing
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert BurnsCollection: Nursing