Quotes about Nursing

He might have been a wafer in the hands Of priests this day, or music from the lips: Of red-robed choristers, instead he slips Away from church, shakes off our linen bands To don his apron with a nurse: he grips And lifts a stretcher, soothes with gentle hands The frail flesh of the dying, gives them hope, Breathes with the breathless, lends them strength to cope.

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

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.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others — even men — could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The most important pratical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe-how to observe-what symptoms indicate improvement-what the reverse-which are of importance-which are of none-which are the evidence of neglect-and of what kind of neglect.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.