Jo Brand Quotes About Nurses

Quotes about: Nurses

• Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Years, Nurse

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Dinner, Sometimes

• And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Abuse, Audience

• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Important, Looks

• When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Stills

• A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

  Jo Brand

  Nursing, Practice, Nurse

• I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

  Jo Brand

  Hard Work, Nurse, People

• There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

  Jo Brand

  Fall, Mean, Nursing

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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