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Nurse Quotes (12 quotes)

In a 1852 letter, Nightingale records the opinion of a young surgeon:
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
— Florence Nightingale
Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter (8 Jan 1852), quoted in Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale (1914), Vol. 1, 116.
Science quotes on:  |  Drunkard (4)  |  Medicine (183)  |  Patient (48)  |  Surgeon (26)  |  Trust (12)

A rash of dermatologists, a hive of allergists, a scrub of interns, a giggle of nurses, a flood of urologists, a pile of proctologists, an eyeful of ophthalmologists, a whiff of anesthesiologists, a cast of orthopaedic rheumatologists, a gargle of laryngologists.
— Anonymous
Science quotes on:  |  Dermatologist (2)

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
— W.C. Fields
Attributed.
Science quotes on:  |  Hospital (21)  |  Joke (22)

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
— Florence Nightingale
In 'Nursing of the Sick' paper, collected in Hospitals, Dispensaries and Nursing: Papers and Discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893 (1894), 457.
Science quotes on:  |  Civilization (77)  |  District (3)  |  Home (14)  |  Hospital (21)  |  Intent (5)  |  Intermediate (8)  |  Opportunity (15)  |  Poor (11)  |  Population (34)  |  Share (7)  |  Sick (5)

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
— Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing: What it is and what it is not (1860), 2.

IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion,
Can never die, for Love forbids her death.
Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion,
And breathed upon her his immortal breath.
On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying,
Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain.
Where the white flag with the red cross is flying,
There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.
[In remembrance of 'The Lady of the Lamp' who died 13 Aug 1910.]
— Joyce Kilmer
In New York Times (29 Aug 1910), 6. Collected in Summer of Love (1911), 72.
Science quotes on:  |  Death (168)  |  Flag (5)  |  In Memoriam (2)  |  Love (57)  |  Florence Nightingale (22)  |  Pain (47)  |  Poetry (59)  |  Soldier (2)  |  Wound (3)

Life is short, the Art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. The physician must be ready, not only to do his duty himself, but also to secure the co-operation of the patient, of the attendants and of externals.
— Hippocrates
Aphorisms, in Hippocrates, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1931), Vol. 4, 99.
Science quotes on:  |  Life (379)  |  Patient (48)  |  Physician (167)

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this—'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
— Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing: what it is and what it is not (1860), 200.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
— Baron Georges Cuvier
(1832). Attributed. In Barnaby Conrad, Famous Last Words (1961), 78.
Science quotes on:  |  Biography (196)  |  Blood (57)  |  Discovery (318)  |  Leech (2)  |  Red (9)

The trained nurse has given nursing the human, or shall we say, the divine touch, and made the hospital desirable for patients with serious ailments regardless of their home advantages.
— Charles Mayo
Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation (1913).
Science quotes on:  |  Advantage (20)  |  Desire (37)  |  Divine (14)  |  Home (14)  |  Hospital (21)  |  Human (131)  |  Patient (48)  |  Touch (16)  |  Training (12)

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.
— Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing: What it is and what it is not (1860), 4.
Science quotes on:  |  Health (85)

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack—to make a generally tidy appearance.
— Richard Alan John Asher
British Medical Journal (1947), 2, 967.
Science quotes on:  |  Bed (5)  |  Hospital (21)  |  Patient (48)



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