"Nurses have come a long way in a few short decades. In the past our attention focused on physical, mental and emotional healing. Now we talk of healing your life, healing the environment and healing the planet."~Lynn Keegan, 1994
"The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe..."~Florence Nightingale, 1859
"Caring is the essence of nursing."~Leninger, 1984
"...the character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses."
~Jarvis, 1996
"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head - (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for the right thing to be always done?"~
Florence Nightingale
Nursing is an art:
And if it is to be made an art,It requires an exclusive devotionas hard a preparation,as any painter´s or sculptor´s work;for what is the having to do withdead canvas or dead marble,compared with having to dowith the living body,the temple of God´s spirit?It is one of the Fine Arts:I had almost said,the finest of Fine Arts.
- Florence Nightingale-
Nurse Sayings - "Ten Reasons To Become a Nurse"
10. Pays better than McDonald´s (though the hours aren´t as good.
)9. Fashionable shoes and sexy nurses uniforms.
8. Needles: ´tis better to give than to receive.
7. Confidence in reassuring patients that all bleeding stops ... eventually.
6. Opportunity to expose yourself to rare, exotic, and exciting new diseases.
5. Interesting aromas.
4. Courteous and infallible doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly clear handwriting.
2. Celebration of holidays with all your friends ... at work.
1. Comfort in the knowledge that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them
When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. ~Author Unknown
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