Quotes by Nursing Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. Isaac Asimov moved-on nursing life My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. J. G. Ballard nursing race doors There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to serve their families and community. So, too, many in the military or in nursing or teaching. As the needs are endless, so are the possibilities of service. Now, more than ever, empowered by the Internet, more of us can serve in more ways than ever before in history. James M Strock nursing military teaching 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 nursing home death 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. Jamie Tworkowski nursing hurt jobs Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber. Jane Austen nursing weakness sick Caring is the essence of nursing. Jean Watson nursing caring essence There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them. Jeff Merkley nursing degrees school 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 nursing girl men A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide. Jo Brand nursing practice nurse Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe. Jo Brand nursing suffering believe There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes. Jo Brand nursing mean fall Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. Jodi Picoult nursing doctors wall It (nursing) comes more from care than study. Johanna Spyri nursing care study People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative. John Darnielle nursing expression people Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. John Cage nursing home school God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church. John Calvin nursing queens mother Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear. John Darnielle nursing giving-up people The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. Jodi Picoult nursing games war I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever. John Muir nursing cutting memories «1234567891011»