Nursing Quotes - Page 3

• The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

  William Osler

  Blessing, Nurse, Humanity

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Nurse and Patient'

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

  Joseph Butler

  Compassion, Nurse, Unhappy

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Motivational, Success, Faith

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• You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Philosophy, Winning

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

  Elbert Hubbard

  Medicine, Nurse, Kind

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• Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Moved On, Emotion

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

  Desmond Tutu

  Grudge

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, America, Nurse

  "Obama's Remarks to the American Nurses Association". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Recovery, Nurse

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teaching, Math, Long

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• We need a comprehensive renewal of the nursing care system in Germany, and quickly. The two-tier medical system must be abolished. Patients with public health insurance are waiting months to be seen by a specialist doctor, while doctors increasingly give priority to privately insured patients. That's unacceptable. We also need an educational revolution. Medicine, nursing care, education: Germany is not a modern country when it comes to these three areas. We have to adapt our policies to the social reality. These are projects that can awaken Germany out of its torpor.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Educational, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Carolyn Jarvis

  Knowledge, Character, Medicine

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• I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

  Misty Upham

  Lonely, Home, People

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• The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

  Florence Nightingale

  Light, Sick, Desire

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.

  David Rolf

  Teacher, Average, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Home, Emotional, Issues

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Pain, Looks, Inspirational Nurse

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

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• I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Home, People, Missing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in chemistry, thinking I would attend medical school. Ultimately, I decided that a career in nursing would allow more time for pursuing other creative interests. While I worked as an RN, I wrote stories inspired by my patients, designed t-shirts, and made hand-painted sandals.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  School, Writing, Math

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.

  Atul Gawande

  Home, People, Rooms

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

  Florence Nightingale

  Party, Mean, House

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.200, Routledge

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