Top 266 Nursing Quotes & Sayings

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

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

My mother was an administrator at a nursing home, and my first job was working at a nursing home as an activities assistant. She wanted me to do it because it forces you out of your shell, and it's about giving back. That's something that I learned from my mother at a very young age.

I love to take care of people, which is why I went to nursing school.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life.

Everyone thought I was crazy when I said I have a nursing degree, but I believe I proved it.

I love and appreciate the bonding time with Mason. Nursing is surprisingly one of my favorite things.

After recovering from COVID-19, I had to be again admitted to a nursing home as I was suffering from gastroenteritis and UTI.

Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard

Caring is the essence of nursing.

I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

I love nursing my babies. It's such a special bond for me.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.

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

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And nursing didn't feel quite right, and an old boyfriend gave me a 35-millimeter camera just to play with. So, I took a darkroom class.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

We need a comprehensive renewal of the nursing care system in Germany, and quickly. The two-tier medical system must be abolished. Patients with public health insurance are waiting months to be seen by a specialist doctor, while doctors increasingly give priority to privately insured patients. That's unacceptable. We also need an educational revolution. Medicine, nursing care, education: Germany is not a modern country when it comes to these three areas. We have to adapt our policies to the social reality. These are projects that can awaken Germany out of its torpor.

Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing home with dementia at the end of his life, but it happened for me personally 10 years ago. My father was much older than my mother, so I experienced it as a pretty young person. People's parents die at various ages, but my father died of mortality. He died of being an old person. Illness and stuff happened, but essentially, he was old and he was going to die.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.