Nursing Quotes

192 quotes by 147 authors

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… — 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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female,… — Florence Nightingale
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain. — Florence Nightingale
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light. — Florence Nightingale
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving… — 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… — Florence Nightingale
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do… — Florence Nightingale
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. — Confucius
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good… — Finley Peter Dunne
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. — Hippocrates
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of… — Florence Nightingale
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,… — Florence Nightingale
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has… — Florence Nightingale
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,… — Florence Nightingale
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. — Florence Nightingale
Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security:… — Unknown Author
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. — Jodi Picoult
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard — Kate Hudson

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