#nurses

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

— Lois Capps

#correlation #hospitals #indicated #morbidity #mortality

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#best #broken #care #doctors #health

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 M. Granholm

#danger #employees #firefighters #hesitate #huge

An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need to read your child's chart to remember where they've left off from the previous visit. It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants -- the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice, the ones who can teach you how to fluch a central venous catheter, or suggest which patient floor might still have Popsicles left to be stolen, or tell you which dry cleaners know how to remove the stains of blood and chemotherapies from clothing. The nurses know the name of your daughter's stuffed walrus and show her how to make tissue paper flowers to twine around her IV stand. The doctor's may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#movie-adaptations #my-sister-s-keeper #nurses #wonderful #movies

Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go," I said. "1. Doesn't pun on your disability," Isaac said. "2. Gets blood on the first try," I said. "Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard? 3. No condescending voice." "How are you doing, sweetie?" I asked, cloying. "I'm going to stick you with a needle now. There might be a little ouchie." "Is my wittle fuffywump sickywicky?" he answered. "Most of them are good, actually. I just want to get the hell out of this place. ↗

— John Green

#illness #lists #nurses #humor

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. ↗

— David Brin

#america #been #before #being #bio

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#even #feel #i #i feel #notice

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

#been #both #career #career opportunities #clinical

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#nurses #possible #praises #too #would

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#god #graces #men #nurses #other