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; for what is the having to do with
The trained nurse has become
one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place
dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having
beside the physician and the priest.... -William Osler
to do with the living body, the temple of God's
spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said,
the finest of Fine Arts. -Florence Nightingale

FACT! -HELPING-
"Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, "Helping to ease every problem and
and energy... care.
nurses are rarely short on caring. You're more than a nurse, you're a
-- Sharon Hudacek, "A Daybook for Nurses"
blessing!" -- Anonymous

Letter for a nurse:

"Dear Nurse, your loving care and gentle
{OR tip}
touch "Constant attention by a good nurse may be
has made a difference. Thank you!" just as important as a major operation by a
-- Anonymous
surgeon."
-- Dag Hammarskjold
 When you're a nurse: You might be a nurse if:

you firmly believe that

You know that every day
'too stupid to live' should be a
you will touch a life or a life will
touch yours. -- Anonymous diagnosis. -- Anonymous

A nurse: {Nurses}
don't wait until October to celebrate
will always give us hope,
Make a Difference Day - they make a difference
an angel with a stethoscope. every day!
-- Carrie Latet
-- Anonymous

Letter for a nurse: {AN old thought}

"Always thank your nurse, "Wives are young men's mistresses,
Sometimes the only one between you companions for
and a hearse." middle age, and old men's nurses."
-- Carrie Latet -- Francis Bacon
 Kitchen thought: {Iliad & odyssey}
"Some people think that doctors and "The charity that is a trifle to us
nurses can be precious to others."
-- Homer, from Odyssey
can put scrambled eggs back in the
shell." -- Cass Canfield

{Knock – knock} {Onomatopoeia}

"The door that nobody else will go in at, "It is the nurse that the child first hears,
seems always to swing open widely for me." -- and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
Clara Barton -- Quintilian

Sense organs? {long term goals!}

"The most important practical lesson than "Unless we are making progress in our
can be given to nurses nursing every year, every month,
is to teach them what to observe." every week, take my word for it we are going
-- Florence Nightingale back." -- Florence Nightingale, 1914
 Deal it with economics!
"Without enough nursing educators,
those to train the next generation of
nurses,
we cannot deal with the shortage."
-- Lois Capps
The trained nurse:
has become one of the great blessings
of humanity,
taking a place beside the physician and
the priest.
-- William Osler
Deal it with economics!
"Without enough nursing educators,
those to train the next generation of
nurses,
we cannot deal with the shortage."
-- Lois Capps
To be a nurse is…
"To do what nobody else will do,
a way that nobody else can do,
in spite of all we go through;
is to be a nurse."
-- Rawsi Williams
{in a war…
"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear
it,
and while our soldiers can stand and fight,
I can stand and feed and nurse them."
-- Clara Barton
Nurses are…
an integral component of the health care system,
and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7
million
registered nurses for the significant work that they
do.-- Nathan Deal
{The act of nursing}
"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."
-- Honor De Balzac
Nurses as servers
"Nurses serve their patients in the most
important capacities.
We know that they serve as our first lines
of communication when something goes wrong
or
when we are concerned about health."
-- Lois Capps
Devotion and obedience
"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any
other definition
of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted
and obedient.'
This definition would do just as well for a porter.
It might even do for a horse."
-- Florence Nightingale
healing
"Nurses have come a long way in a few short
decades. In the past
our attention focused on physical, mental and
emotional healing.
Now we talk of healing your life, healing the
environment and healing the planet."
-- Lynn Keegan
Nursing inclusions
"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic
orientation,
a feeling for the value of the individual,
and an intuitive sense of ethics,
and of the appropriateness of action taken."
-- Myrtle Aydelotte
{what ‘bout religion?}
"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 nurse."
-- Finley Peter Dunne
 Young girls…
"Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses,
whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled
touch,
patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils,
are as great factors in the care of the sick,
as are the professional physicians."
-- Lydia Hoyt Farmer
A good example
"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent,
and a faith in the possibility of something better.
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done.
I defy the tyranny of precedent.
I go for anything new that might improve the past."
-- Clara Barton
 Religion vs science
Formerly, when religion was strong and science
weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when
science is strong and religion weak, men mistake
medicine for magic.
-Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
Md vs atty
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only
difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov
Abdominal region
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in
search of nostrums by which they vainly hope
they may get more time to squander. ~Mortimer
Collins
{I love books!
Let the young know they will never find a
more interesting, more instructive book than
the patient himself. ~Giorgio Baglivi
{a proverb}
One doctor makes work for another.
~English Proverb
{clinical history!
Nowadays the clinical history too often
weighs more than the man. ~Martin H.
Fischer