Quotes and Sayings About Nursing
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
-- Florence Nightingale -
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
-- Florence Nightingale -
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
-- Florence Nightingale -
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
-- Florence Nightingale -
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
-- Florence Nightingale -
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.
-- Florence Nightingale -
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
-- Florence Nightingale -
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
-- Florence Nightingale -
What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)
-- Frank Beddor -
nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.
-- Gerda Lerner -
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century
-- Hildegard Peplau -
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
-- Hippocrates -
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.
-- James Lileks -
There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.
-- Jeff Merkley -
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
-- Jennifer Weiner
