Quotes about Nursing

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.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses. We must be learning all of our lives.

The martyr sacrifices herself entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

To be 'in charge' is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that everyone else does so too.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires as exclusive a 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'.

To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

I use the word nursing for want of a better.