Nurse Quotes And Sayings
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Nursing Quotes

The little story below is one of my favourites and oh so true. My husband works in a large company and always finds time to have a little chat with the cleaning lady. Many, unfortunately don't bother!

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

Joann C. Jones

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

Author Unknown

More Nurse Quotes

If love can't cure it, nurses can.

Author Unknown


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

Author Unknown


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


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, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses

Caring is the essence of nursing.

Jean Watson

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