Top 266 Nurses Quotes & Sayings

Politicians aren't leading us. Nurses are. Doctors are. Teachers are. Activists are.

I actually have an absolute respect for nurses and hospitals.

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

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.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.

So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

In Kenya, e-learning has taught 12,000 nurses how to treat major diseases such as HIV and malaria, compared to the 100 nurses a year that can be taught in a classroom.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

I'm overweight and over 40. I usually play nurses and prison guards.

Take care, Jeffy. I’ll see you soon, right? Just remember not to throw food at the nurses. I don’t want to get any complaint calls, OK? Steven, I don’t throw food at…oh, that was a joke, right? Yup, buddy boy. It was a joke. But seriously, no kissing the nurses on the lips, either. It messes up their makeup. Eeeeeeewwwww!

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.

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

When I was born, my mother said all the nurses wanted to come see the colored baby.

I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

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

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

Too few nurses puts patients at risk. It also risks the mental and physical health of the nurses we do have, as the fewer staff there are on a ward, the harder it gets to pick up the pieces.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

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

Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

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.

I have no trouble saying, as the copy reads, about how caring nurses are, because it's true.

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.