Nurses Quotations

I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.

What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.

Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.

I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.

Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all.

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

One parent of a diabetic eighth-grader told me she's thinking of transferring to a school system that has nurses (in high school), because she's worried there won't be anyone to help monitor her child's condition.

Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves. We have more and more large employers. We can't solve problems at a local level.

Nurses are my heroes... We dealt with a lot of oncology nurses... They are unsung and underpaid.

Nurses are required to be patient advocates and do no harm.

Nurses are with patients 10-12 hours per day giving old-fashioned care. This is a chance to say thank you to them.

Nurses look for environments to work where they're valued and respected and they look for an environment where they can participate and be involved in decision-making. We have a strong physician-nurse relationship. Our physicians highly regard our nursing staff.

Nurses play a unique and central role in our health care system, and we need to unite and empower nurses to speak out. Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves because of low pay and working conditions.

Rich country governments must ensure the aid promised last year is used to pay for the millions of doctors, nurses and teachers, which are so badly needed.

Last year the Parish Nurses received grant funding to do a drug prevention education calendar. The Scouts did a pilot project by doing several small presentations and having students do drawings. Calendars were made and distributed to elementary schools in Derby, Seymour and Oxford.

We need to be able to train more nurses in our state starting now. The problem is only going to get worse as baby boomers head into retirement; the demand for qualified nurses is only going to go up.

She was a wonderful caregiver who touched the lives of many patients personally. And she touched many more lives by helping other nurses learn and grow in their profession.

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.

For the protection of the country, nurses are being asked to risk their health in the line of duty, ... There should be some form of compensation, just like anyone else killed or injured in the line of duty.

Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

We support autonomy in nursing care delivery and professional development. We make sure our nurses have everything they need to provide the safest care for their patients.

I am honored to be part of this event, which will not only pay tribute to the nurses who provide advanced, compassionate care for all of us in our community, but which will also raise funds so that they will have access to the very best and most advanced nursing station possible at Emerson's new Surgical Center.

There is a nursing shortage in the valley, ... Why send so many high quality nurses home for wearing a button?

The people putting on your roof, your teachers, the nurses in your hospitals those are the people that are living there because it's what they can afford as they start out.

is aggressively pursing more appropriate avenues to compete for nurses within the hospital industry.

Physicians, nurses ... have been documented repeatedly to not wash their hands properly, ... At best, it is 40 percent of the time that we recommend that they should wash their hands (that they really do).

Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.

Last week I trained two OBGYN physicians at EAMC and yesterday (Wednesday) I trained six out of 22 labor and delivery nurses. I'll train more nurses on Feb. 8 and eight more physicians and the rest of the nurses on Feb. 13. Once everyone is trained, we can start collecting cord blood. We should be up and running by Valentine's Day - that's the goal. If not, it should be shortly thereafter.

Joan is part of a wonderful team of nurses at the school. We have 3,000 students here, and three nurses who have to deal with about 100 youngsters a day. I don't know what we'd do without them in today's world.

It finally seems to be the right time. We seem to have an increased interest in nursing in our students, and some donors who are willing to help finance the program. There is a shortage of nurses worldwide, and it certainly fits well into the mission of FHU as far as serving others.

I thought she'd be small, but she was really big. She's beautiful. The nurses were wonderful. I can't say it was fun, but when you're in good company like this, it was easier.

It became clear that our own employees who aren't nurses had the aptitude and the ability, but they were constrained by financial reasons or transportation. We traveled the world looking for nurses. The mother lode is within ourselves, within our 17,000 employees.

I think it's good business to enhance any services we have, ... (The trauma center designation) requires a certain level of education and training that you don't necessarily do for the usual emergency room. All of our nurses have gone through a trauma nurse training center. When people hear that you have that higher level of training, people do come.

We need nurses in all places -- in universities and in hospitals -- and the only way to solve this problem is to train more.

We can't afford to have nurses on the road all the time.

We have used an eclectic approach to dealing with the moisture concern at Greenwood by employing the services of clean-up crews, air quality control experts, engineers, school nurses and maintenance workers in order to fix this problem.

We issued a code green which is for an external situation involving an event in the community. We bring in additional nurses and physicians to handle the situation.

Most of the nurses at my hospital did not turn their patients every two hours, mostly because it is so hard to get staff members to help. Also, many are very well aware of the dangers of back injury.

We got together this morning (Wednesday) at the hospital and Geanene Marshall, who has been very instrumental in getting the effort organized, suggested the Labor of Love idea. We started calling radio stations and other hospitals. We've tried to reach as many people as we could. We even faxed a copy to the North Carolina Nurses Association.

We need to focus on schools; the overcrowding issues that are a big problem here in Queens, and the lack of supplies and teachers, but also take responsibility for the children outside the public school system, ... We need to make nurses available for parochial schools, yeshivas and other secular institutions, as well as provide funding for computers and software.

We can't continue at management's current pace. The county is not taking their nurses seriously, but the nurses are very serious about resolving this situation immediately.

We find attorneys who aren't attorneys and nurses who aren't nurses. People just aren't truthful on their resumes.

The outcomes NCH Healthcare System has experienced are a testament to how healthcare IT provides clinicians with the tools to improve quality of care This technology has helped dedicated physicians and nurses to become more operationally efficient, fundamentally improving how care is delivered.

We have put on this service to recognise the police, the fire brigade and the nurses in the health sector and to highlight the sterling contribution they have been making in this community. We know that many times their service goes unnoticed and so as a fraternal we have decided to highlight them,

We're at a critical juncture. I'd venture to say there are crises at every turn. The biggest we have is the nursing and departure at a time when the patient population is increasing. We push our nurses to the limit.

This was a staff-implemented project. Three of our staff nurses championed the change; they did the training of the rest of the staff.

There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.

Volunteer nurses that are working in other areas of the community come to us and went through Red Cross orientation.

We would hope that all nurses and their representatives will put patient care first as we continue to negotiate in good faith. We would hope for compromise and good faith on both sides of the table instead of unilateral demands.

When I was first taken to the hospital I told the nurses and doctors that I had six weeks to get better because that's how long it was until they were supposed to hold the Banked Slalom. The nurses looked at me like I was crazy, and the doctors said maybe in six months.

To receive the Great 100 Award is a real honor. We are extremely proud of our nurses and the excellence they represent.

When we first had him he was very aware of his limited survival of his own mortality, and I think every day that he has he views as a blessing, ... We had a video conference with some of the other surgeons and nurses that are involved in the project, and his one message to them was 'Life is wonderful.'

At 6:30 a.m. I went in with a bunch of nurses and was there an hour and a half. I told them I did not want to be in an area I was not supposed to be in. We were not being disruptive and I did not even see any patients.

Currently, there are 19 nurses who have children enrolled in the center.

At that point one of the nurses and I reached for the button at the same time and delivered one shock.

The situation for nurses in Cook County is critical and getting worse every day in patient safety and keeping RNs in the system. What the nurses want, and the county needs, is for the RNs to have a strong voice in patient care decisions and staffing.

We should be concerned about medical errors, not the kind when a doctor leaves a scissors in you, or cuts off the wrong arm, but nurses not washing their hands and spreading infections, prescriptions not filled out accurately. Medical errors are attributed to causing as many of a 100,000 deaths a year in North America,

We wanted to be able to link in some of the alerts that come off the equipment to the pagers for the nurses and other clinicians on the floor.

The governor has already asked his appointees to various licensing boards for professionals, including doctors, nurses and dentists, to set up arrangements so they can begin to practice their professions in Texas,

Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several, as diarrhoea makes it difficult for a child to retain anything.

A lot of times with long term care there's kind of, you're working at a ratio, that you're right at a crunch. So if you find more nurses available, more nursing personnel the care would probably be much better.

Also, if someone has a medical emergency during therapy, doctors and nurses are right here.

They struck us as articulate, capable. These kids wanted to be doctors and nurses and engineers and astronauts and then they hit the schoolhouse door and they're confronted with an environment which is not inspiring, not engaging and often disorderly and unsafe.

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Our doctors and nurses should not have to rely on CNN or word of mouth for critical public health information.

There's not only a shortage of nurses but also a critical shortage of nursing instructors. That is an ongoing problem.

This really is the highest recognition within the nursing profession. The nurses at El Camino are so proud of having achieved this status.

We are short of nurses and nursing aides at the (Medical Surgical Department), ... It has three nursing aides, but each of them has to take care of nine patients.

This actually, in terms of posting the staffing plans, is about not having the government tell hospitals and nurses how to staff their units. It's about providing the right care, not the same care.

This goes to the core of what it means to be an American. Conscience is the most sacred of all property. Doctors, dentists, nurses and other health care workers should not be forced to violate their consciences.

A Down syndrome child is very strong-willed. They had to hold her down to get it (blood). There were two nurses in there, and I was standing in the hallway crying.

In spite of this, once admitted to the general ward the typhus patient did not contaminate any of the other patients, the nurses or the doctors.

In some locations, it's hard to recruit nurses, thus the need for overtime. The underlying issue is there aren't enough nurses in Illinois, so that's what the governor is working to address.

The attorney general and Mrs. Ashcroft thank the doctors, nurses and staff of the George Washington University Hospital for their excellent treatment and care,

At the same time the government has failed to meet that promise, we know that there will be thousands of nurses who are due to retire in 2008.

'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.

It's been very clear for the better part of 10 years that we need to build a new hospital. If this does not pass, I think we're going to see a quick exodus of doctors and nurses and other clinical personnel.

It will continue to grow because of the demand for nurses and caregivers. It may not be replicated, since it is already at its peak, but it will still be in double digits.

I'll never forget that three nurses who cared for him from the cancer clinic traveled all the way to Campbell River to be at the funeral service. He had a lot of wonderful friends.

In the Pearl harbor crisis, there was a wholly American, selfless response, down to how the nurses dealt with the attack, using their stockings to dress wounds, their lipstick to mark who would live or die. Imagine that. That is what hooked me.

I heard a loud noise up in the front of the boat. They had heard about the surrender, and word spread throughout the boat. Nurses were jumping up and down, and hugging and kissing us. It was nice.

Home health care nurses have access to hard to reach and difficult to treat populations who are at the highest risk for smoking-related diseases.

These nurses shored up a health care system that was in disarray. Many patients they treated had medical care for the first time in their lives, that's very frightening.

It was kind of crazy luck that it was me with the device and two nurses that were three of the first four on the scene.

All of a sudden, a bunch of nurses came and told us we had to run upstairs because they was shootin' at the helicopter,

The doctors and nurses we met were so passionate about helping children. We came away from our tour with a desire to help support the new hospital in a significant way. Our children and all six grandchildren live in Grand Rapids or close by, so we want to assure that the best health care available anywhere is available here--not only for them, but for all children and families in the region.

The EU is leaving no stone unturned to try to secure the release of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian medic.

A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.

And it's getting more difficult and more expensive to recruit nurses from out of state because there is a significant shortage everywhere. Why not educate our own people for these jobs instead of trying to find them out of state? It would be mutually beneficial for hospitals and students.

It's been catastrophic. The nurses are the ones to hold the situation together at hospitals and they are all leaving.

It's a huge improvement over everything being on paper, and the nurses have become very comfortable with it.

As union membership for nurses unions grows, so does our ability to speak out.

The nurses and staff at the hospice were the most wonderful people. I can't say enough about how they made my parents stay dignified.

The nurses are innocent, and all proposals for paying compensation or any other form of recognizing guilt are unacceptable.

The nurses brought each of us a piece of cake.

The nurses would have to hold (the babies) next to them, in order for them to maintain their temperature.

Anyone who's going to get any of his organs are going to have a piece of history in them. The last few minutes that we had, the nurses let me lay in bed with him, and I put his arm around me and I just laid and I listened to his heartbeat, and I was so thankful to think someone may have that heart.

They are a wonderful group of people. There were roaches crawling on my feet. I was speechless. The house smelled. The nurse held this woman's hand and treated her with such dignity. If I had a wish, it would be to give them a raise and hope to get more nurses to join them.