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I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.
Sep 29, 2025
We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
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.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.
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.
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.
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.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
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.
When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.
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.
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.
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
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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