Nurses Quotes (221 Quotes)


    First of all, this is God's country I love this area. But the job also fascinated me. Basically, I have been an occupational nurse, but I thoroughly enjoy educating people on wellness and fitness, and there is a big need for that here. Finally, I have the time to do it.


    We receive at least 250 applications from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan for 25 seats each year. Not everyone can be a PA. It is not easy, and it's sometimes beyond the scope of ability for people to do it. When we look at applications, the main thing that stands out is 'do we want that person to take care of our parent' Like a nurse practitioner, it is a higher level of care. You have to have an open and honest heart and sometimes we have to tell them there are other ways to help besides becoming a PA.


    Nurses play a unique and central role in our health care system, and we need to unite and empower nurses to speak out. Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves because of low pay and working conditions.






    I just like working with other people and that's why I want to be a nurse. I just like working with people. I just like being around different people and helping different people out.


    There must be protection for the little people. People working in the ports, the railway drivers, craftsmen, nurses in hospitals, they need somebody in this deregulated Europe that will protect them.

    When I was first taken to the hospital I told the nurses and doctors that I had six weeks to get better because that's how long it was until they were supposed to hold the Banked Slalom. The nurses looked at me like I was crazy, and the doctors said maybe in six months.

    You cannot tell me as a nurse who works in that hospital that cutting 150 people, and that's what it will be since most of them are part time, will not impact patient care.

    He has taken a hard right turn. The Governor is attacking nurses, firefighters and teachers. It is clear he is taking the state in the wrong direction. California can't afford four more years of his politics or his policies.

    I have a lot of anger going out toward that nurse. I hate her. She stood by and watched my baby being tortured by all those guards. My baby was cold-blooded murdered.



    We need to be able to train more nurses in our state starting now. The problem is only going to get worse as baby boomers head into retirement the demand for qualified nurses is only going to go up.

    Physicians, nurses ... have been documented repeatedly to not wash their hands properly, ... At best, it is 40 percent of the time that we recommend that they should wash their hands (that they really do).

    I was a school nurse, and I can tell you that I sent many, many letters to parents telling them about problems and recommending that they take their children to a doctor. I know that many families never followed up.

    assessed, evaluated, treated, had a plan for follow-up care that was discussed between the physician, the nurse, the patient and the family, and was discharged appropriately.

    We just want to be competitive with surrounding counties. Our turnover rate is 33 percent. The nurses love their jobs, but they leave because they just can't make a living.


    I am delighted at this wonderful recognition of the richness and vibrancy of professional nursing practice at the VCUHS. Being designated as a Magnet organization is a special affirmation of the quality of our nurses, our nursing organization and all of our staff across the Health System.

    One night a lady delivered and I was called to come and see her because she was uncontrollable. I went in the room, and she was going to pieces she was having a nervous breakdown, screaming and thrashing. The nurses were upset because they couldn't get any work done, and all the other patients were upset because this lady was screaming. I walked in, and here was her little saline abortion baby kicking. It had been born alive, and was kicking and moving for a little while before it finally died of those terrible burns, because the salt solution gets into the lungs and burns the lungs, too.

    The medical profession has proved to be a source of stable income for nurses. I think people are moving in that direction, where five years ago they would have gone to work for a dot-com company.

    I heard a loud noise up in the front of the boat. They had heard about the surrender, and word spread throughout the boat. Nurses were jumping up and down, and hugging and kissing us. It was nice.

    Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

    I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

    The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.



    By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

    Nurses are the heart and soul of everything you do. Pay close attention to their wants and needs, and take meaningful steps to address them, and you can transform your entire organization. When nurses are happy, patients are happy--and everything else naturally falls into place.



    I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.


    When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

    I liked theater, but I was a nurse, a mother, and later a school psychologist. I didn't have time to do this before, and I wanted to include as many people in the cast as possible.


    Point-of-care ADL documentation is very significant. It allows the nurse aides to spend more time caring for the resident. We have found that documentation is more accurate with this type of documentation as well. Integration is important so that various departments don't have to enter the same information over and over again.

    I remember in the late '60s and early '70s we couldn't wear pants to school. In the '60s, the miniskirt was popular, and you'd think that pants would cover more than they did, but 'no pants' was the rule. Gradually, things became more relaxed. We also had two lounges one for smokers and one for non-smokers. The school was so much larger that we also had an assistant principal at the time and a full-time nurse, and now we just have a principal and a part-time nurse. We also had no library at our school site. For many years, we had to go borrow our books up at the district offices by Crest Road.

    We are short of nurses and nursing aides at the (Medical Surgical Department), ... It has three nursing aides, but each of them has to take care of nine patients.

    As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?


    This is not a satisfactory response. Let's not call it that, ... It's an insult to the people who are in hospitals. Doctors and health professionals, nurses and the rest who are making enormous sacrifices need it to be much more done sooner.

    In the Pearl harbor crisis, there was a wholly American, selfless response, down to how the nurses dealt with the attack, using their stockings to dress wounds, their lipstick to mark who would live or die. Imagine that. That is what hooked me.

    B. C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative. The province commends the Lois Fish Palliative Society for creating a source of comprehensive information on palliative resources in B. C., ... By January 2006, we are hopeful this resource will link directly with B. C. NurseLine and further enhance the ability of the nurses to provide greater assistance to British Columbians with end-of-life care, service providers and organizations in their communities.



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