Inspirational Nurse Quotes - Page 2

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  Warren Beatty

  Hate, Nursing, Nurse

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Nursing, Opportunity

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• 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.

  Myrtle Aydelotte

  Art, Taken, Nursing

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• Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nursing

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• Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

  Lois Capps

  Communication, Nursing, Nurse

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• Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Nursing, Play, Nurse

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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• The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

  Carolyn Jarvis

  Knowledge, Character, Nursing

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Nursing, Sick, Skins

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.64

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Florence Nightingale

  Motivational, Fear, Women

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, (p. 479), 2007.

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• There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

  Florence Nightingale

  Pain, Nursing, Looks

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.91, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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