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  • 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
  • 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
  • For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system. -- Nathan Deal
  • Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles. -- Agatha Christie
  • Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. -- W. H. Auden
  • Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all. -- Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
  • Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying. -- Steve Lopez
  • Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference. -- Brittney Wilson
  • Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for. -- Jenny Downham
  • 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. -- Christine Bell
  • 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. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. -- Francis Bacon
  • I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. -- Mike Ferguson
  • How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. -- Warren Beatty
  • I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes. -- Bernie Siegel
  • 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. -- Jo Brand
  • Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch. -- Jen Kirkman
  • Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. -- Bill Gates
  • 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. -- Julia Glass
  • Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier. -- John Redwood
  • America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. -- Bill Frist
  • 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. -- John Hutton
  • In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. -- Nellie Bly
  • 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. -- Jo Brand
  • Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases. -- Margaret Chan
  • Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers. -- Gary Lineker
  • 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. -- Margaret Chan
  • The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings. -- Lance Loud
  • I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others. -- Jessie Pavelka
  • 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. -- Robert Hunter
  • When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid. -- George Ade
  • Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses, -- Lydia Hoyt Farmer
  • Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse. -- Susanna Kaysen
  • The nurses were all angels in my eyes. -- Randy Castillo
  • Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly. -- Stephen Ambrose
  • Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. -- Paulo Coelho
  • America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system. -- Barack Obama
  • Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses. -- Alexandra Potter
  • The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses. -- James Whistler
  • God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything. -- Eve Ensler
  • I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot. -- Dean Winchester
  • Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. -- Jodi Picoult
  • They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. -- James A. Michener
  • Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. -- Cass Canfield
  • Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives. -- Florence Nightingale
  • Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. -- William S. Burroughs
  • We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses. -- Sarah Hanson-Young
  • In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us. -- Rick Mercer
  • There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers -- Lindsey Graham
  • So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. -- Robert Reich
  • Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. -- Florence Nightingale
  • White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. -- Joan Mitchell
  • The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. -- Jodi Picoult
  • I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses. -- Nell Carter
  • So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work. -- Charles Kennedy
  • On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found. -- George Thorogood
  • The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered. -- Billy Barty
  • Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
  • The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans. -- Jessica Lynch
  • Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning. -- Christopher Morley
  • I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion. -- Lewis Carroll
  • The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child. -- Charisse Montgomery
  • 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. -- Lily Tomlin
  • Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage. -- Marjorie Kellogg
  • Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. -- Rick Renzi
  • In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • The more love and support your child receives, the richer his or her life becomes, and nurses can certainly add to the circle of love surrounding your child. -- Charisse Montgomery
  • The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease. -- Colleen Saidman
  • When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working. -- Donald Ray Pollock
  • When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials. -- Charles Kennedy
  • A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide. -- Jo Brand
  • When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate. -- Alexandra Robbins
  • 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. -- Alexandra Robbins
  • We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses. -- Jeff Merkley
  • Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks. -- Anne Sexton
  • 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? -- Andrew Lansley
  • One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses. -- Peter Drucker
  • He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn. -- Timothee de Fombelle
  • The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care. -- Charisse Montgomery
  • Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters. -- Vivian Gornick
  • Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
  • It is very unlikely that Uganda will face a chaotic scenario similar to that in Syria or other places. Incidentally, doctors, scientists, engineers and nurses are highly sought after and find jobs immediately. -- Yoweri Museveni
  • It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring, and they were women who could legitimately touch men all over. -- Stephanie Rothman
  • For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion. -- Florence Nightingale
  • The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay. -- Bernie Sanders
  • I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas. -- Lily Tomlin
  • Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours. -- Rhys Ifans
  • The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers. -- Arthur Alfred Lynch
  • Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. -- Jon Porter
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