«Nurses Day»

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Gerhard Kocher

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

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.

Gary Veale

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.

Carrie Latet

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

Behind every great doctor is an even greater nurse.

Unknown

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

Val Saintsbury

A nurse is compassion in scrubs.

Lexie Saige

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Dag Hammarskjold

When you’re a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.

Author Unknown

When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over the years, I know most of them don’t remember me nor I them, but I do know that I gave a little piece of myself to each of them and they to me and those threads make up the beautiful tapestry in my mind that is my career in nursing.

Donna Wilk Cardillo

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Stephen Ambrose

Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the job, everyday, while we are “just doing our jobs”.

Christine Belle

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

Andrew Lansley

Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring.

Sharon Hudacek

Nursing care comes in many forms. Sometimes it is the ability to make someone feel physically comfortable by various means. Other times it is the ability to improve the body’s ability to achieve or maintain health. But often it is an uncanny yet well honed knack to see beyond the obvious and address, in some way, the deeper needs of the human soul.

(Daybook for Beginning Nurses)

Donna Wilk Cardillo

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 dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having 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

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

William Osler

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

Save one life and you’re a hero, save one hundred lives and you’re a nurse.

Author Unknown

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Barack Obama

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

Carolyn Jarvis

Caring is the essence of nursing.

Jean Watson

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

Donna Wilk Cardillo

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.

Carrie Latet

Nurses may not be angels, but they are the next best thing!

Author Unknown

The nurses’ job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It’s just a consequence of their environment.

Peter Capaldi

Nurses don’t wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day — they make a difference every day!

Author Unknown

To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse.

Rawsi Williams