Caring is the essence of nursing.

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of…

— Virginia Henderson

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a…

— Finley Peter Dunne

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

— Augusten Burroughs

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

— Jodi Picoult

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.…

— Florence Nightingale

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

— Monica Dickens

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

— Jodi Picoult

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the…

— Myrtle Aydelotte

“In the middle of chaos, a patient once whispered, ‘Thank you for seeing me.’ And I’ve never forgotten that.”

— Aj Gabriel

Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job…

— Brittney Wilson

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go…

— Eve Hewson

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

— Florence Nightingale

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

— Jo Brand

Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care.…

— Judi Evans

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

— Florence Nightingale