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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
Sep 29, 2025
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with 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.
Leave people better than you found them.
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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