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Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes. ~Author Unknown
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major
operation by a surgeon. ~Dag Hammarskjold
Nurses are the heart of healthcare. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ~Gerhard Kocher
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusivedevotion 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
Caring is the essence of nursing. ~Jean Watson
Nurses can take the pressure. ~Author Unknown
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a
place beside the physician and the priest.... ~William Osler
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even aprescription. ~Val Saintsbury
Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy... nurses are rarely
short on caring. ~Sharon Hudacek, "A Daybook for Nurses"
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Nurses are I.V. leaguers. ~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,A Daybook for Beginning Nurses
After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~W.C. Fields
When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will
touch yours. ~Author Unknown
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. ~Elizabeth Kenny
Nurses are patient people. ~Author Unknown
You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a
diagnosis. ~Author Unknown
You know you're a nurse if... you triage the laundry when at home: This pile
needs immediate attention, the pile can wait, this pile, with a little stain stickwill be OK until you get back to it. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~Gary Veale
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it
wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
~Finley Peter Dunne
Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe
Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and
compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and
purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No
wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day! ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
If love can't cure it, nurses can. ~Author Unknown
A nurse will always give us hope,
an angel with a stethoscope.
~Carrie Latet
Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day - they
make a difference every day! ~Author Unknown
Confucius say: "Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient." ~Author
Unknown
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. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo,A
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Daybook for Beginning Nurses
Always thank your nurse,
Sometimes the only one between you and a hearse.~Carrie Latet
Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. ~Carrie Latet
We'd all be worse without a nurse. ~Author Unknown
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
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100 Entertaining & Inspiring Quotes for Nurses
June 14th, 2010
Nursing can be a challenging profession, and whether you're astudentor a seasoned
veteran, sometimes you just need a little pick-me-up to help you keep going. Here are 100
quotes all about nursing, medicine and patient care that can help inspire you or make you
laugh and make your day a little brighter.
Inspiration and Motivation
Look to these quotes for inspiration and
motivation to keep you going through
even the most difficult day.
1. Mother Theresa:It is not how much you
do but how much love you put in the
doing.
2. Homer: The charity is a trifle to us can
be precious to others.
3. Clara Barton: The door that nobody else
will go in at, seems always to swing openwidely for me.
4. Lynn Keegan: 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.
5. Clara Barton: I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers
can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
6. Clara Barton: I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the
possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I
defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
7. Maya Angelou: They may forget your name but they will never forget how you made them
feel.
8. Anatole France: To accomplish great things, you must not only act, but also dream, not
only plan, but also believe.
9. Benjamin Franklin: Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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10.Mark Twain: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
11.Florence Nightingale: I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to
be distilled into actions which bring results.
12.Orison Swett Marden: There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic
so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.13.The Bible: A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
14.Dr. Carl Sagan: Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than
have been lost in all the wars in history.
15.Miguel de Cervantes: God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
16.Leon J. Suenes: Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true.
17.Epictetus: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
18.Aristotle: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
19.Robert Frost: The best way out is always through.
20.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:Knowing is not enough; we must apply .Willing is not
enough; we must do.
21.Washington Irving: There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness,
but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are
messengers of overwhelming griefand unspeakable love.
22.Elizabeth Kenney: It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
23.Florence Nightingale: I attribute my success to this I never gave or took any excuse.
LeadershipAs a nurse, you'll often need to work with others and maybe even lead them. These quotes
provide tips and advice for being a great leader.
24.Dwight D. Eisenhower: Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you
want done because he wants to do it.
25.General Douglas MacArthur: A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under
his command make him.
26.John Quincy Adams: If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more
and become more, you are a leader.
27.Friedrich Nietzsche: To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is moredifficult.
28.Sophocles: What you cannot enforce, do not command.
29.Robert Burton:I light my candle from their torches.
30.George S. Patton: Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
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31.Publilius Syrus:Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
32.Napoleon Bonaparte: A leader is a dealer in hope.
33.Ovid: A ruler should be slow to punish
and swift to reward.
About NursesSee what these great leaders and
thinkers had to say about nurses in these
quotes.
34.Dag Hammarskjold:Constant attention
by a good nurse may be just as important
as a major operation by a surgeon.
35.William Osler: The trained nurse has
become one of the great blessings of
humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
36.Val Saintsbury: Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a
prescription.
37.Sharon Hudacek: Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy nurses are
rarely short on caring.
38.Sara Moss-Wolfe: Nurses: one of the few blessings of being ill.
39. Anonymous: If love can't cure it, nurses can.
40.Carrie Latet: A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
41.Stephen Ambrose: It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.42.Henry Ward Beecher:God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
43.Florence Nightingale: The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is
to teach them what to observe
44.Rawsi Williams: To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of
all we go through; is to be a nurse
45.Lois Capps: 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.
46.Elizabeth Kenny: Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.47. Anonymous: Nurses may not be angels but they are the next best thing.
48.Gary Veale:Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.
49.Carolyn Jarvis: The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she
possesses.
On Nursing
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62.Simone Weil: Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for
him to know that compassion is listening to him.
63.Albert Schweitzer: I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That
is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
64.Dalai Lama: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,practice compassion.
65.Anne McCaffrey: Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
66.Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of
others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
On Health and Medicine
These quotes deal with the larger health care and medical field.
67.Sally P. Karioth: A good doctor is one who'll say, 'I have no idea what's going on with this
patient. Come help me figure it out.'
68.Robert Skeist: I like when patients tell me that they understand their conditions and meds
better and that now they're optimistic about their health.
69.Henri Amiel: There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
70.Norman Cousins: Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
71.Bill Frist: 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.
72.John Hutton: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 apay system that has held them back both professionally as well as financially.
73.Lois Capps: Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of
nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
74.Florence Nightingale:Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do
a patient more harm than any exertion.
75.Ovid: Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
76.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a
humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service
of prolonging life rather than diminishinghuman suffering.
77.James Bryce: Medicine, the only
profession that labors incessantly to
destroy the reason for its existence.
Communication and People
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Nursing is a career that requires you to work closely with people from all walks of life. Learn
to better work with and speak to them with advice from these quotes.
78.Lord Chesterfield:You must look into other people as well as at them.
79.Saint Basil: A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who
plants kindness gathers love.80.Publius Syrus: Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
81.William Thackeray: Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
82.Thomas Campbell: The soul of conversation is sympathy.
83.John Tillotson: A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our
silence; which costs us nothing.
84.Francois de La Rochefoucauld:We never listen when we are eager to speak.
85.Seneca the Younger:The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
86.George Bernard Shaw:The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it
has taken place.
87.Anthony Robbins: To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in
the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication
with others.
88.Anthony Robbins: The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately
determines the quality of our lives.
89.John Kotter:Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly
formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
FunnyFor those just in need for a good laugh, read through these quotes.
90.Gerhard Kocher:Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
91. Anonymous: Nurses are I.V. Leaguers.
92.W.C. Fields: After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
93.Cass Canfield: Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in
the shell.
94.Florence Nightingale: 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.95.Finley Peter Dunne: If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity,
it wouldn't make any difference which you called in if you had a good nurse.
96.James M. Hunter: Treat the patient, not the X-ray.
97.Warren Beatty: How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you
hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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98. Anonymous: Confucius say: Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
99.W.H. Auden: Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
100. Florence Nightingale: It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first
requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Nursing is not just an ART, it has a heART. Nursing is not just a SCIENCE, but it has a conscience
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Nursing PoemsSubmitpoems for this page. We attempt to verify whenauthorship is claimed, however NAR take no responsibilityfor poems
submitted under false names.
Hearts of GoldSherry York
There are times in our lives when we sit down and wonder where our lives will
lead us.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our jobs that we forget what we truly
represent.
We get frustrated, aggravated, pushed to the limits and so mentally tired that we
feel what is the use in being a Nurse.
But then someone gives us a weak smile or holds our hand and may say "thank
you, you are so special."
The we feel the warmth growing in our hearts.
All the bad feelings disappear and replaced by the core values that we present:
human dignity, compassion, dedication, integrity, stewardship, leadership and
excellence.
So when the bad feelins begin to show take the times to say this prayer:
Lord, help me to bring comfort where there is pain.
Courage where there is despair.
Acceptance when the end is near.
A touch gentle with tenderness, patience, and love.
And, always remember, all Nurses are truly blessed.
For you see --- God gave of Hearts of Gold.
Why Do I do This?Ashley Lipscomb, Student Nyrse
Why do I study all hours of the night?
Why do I put up such a fight?
I do it because one day I will celebrate new baby born.
And, one day help a family mourn.
It makes me have courage and determination.
It teaches me how to handle my dissatisfaction.
Some people will curse or bless you.
But every day they will teach you something new.
That is why I study all nght.
And, why I put us such a fight.
Because one day, a Nurse I will be.To help people like you and me.
NurseSubmitted by Paul Nickerson - Paul is not a Nurse, but his Mother , now retired,
was for many years. Paul found this poem tucked away
in a small photo album belonging to his mother.
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It was a game we all played as a child
Then some of us made it a dream worthwhile
More to learn, not as much time to share
Because in our hearts we really cared
We have worked the late night hours
While others slept awayHandles a doctor's many moods
Then found time to pray
Critical moments that remain as memories
Some sad - then some are good
Then there are the tragedies
That will never be understood
We see a newborn baby smile
As we watch another slip away
And that completes the circle
The price for life's that paid
Sometimes not appreciated
When just a hug will do
We are proud of our profession
A guift from me to you
Another GoodbyeBy Jennifer Huff, LPN
I said goodbye to you today.
In my own quiet way.
A hidden tear was shed.
Tribute to the life you led.
Empty chair, an unspoken reminder of you.
Too soon to be filled by a patient so new.
Numb to the pain of so many goodbyes.
Sorrow hidden, secretly brushing tears from my eyes.
You joined the others who paved the way for you.
The leader, the song-man, the fiesty one, too.
The one who decided that he'd just had enough.
Saying farewell to you all has been so tough.
I like to imagine you are all gathered up there.
Playing poker, having feasts, so many stories to share.
No more restrictions on fluid and food.
No longer chained to disease, it is as it should.
Those of us left behind, keep your memory alive.
Working hard every day to help others survive.
Chair no longer empty, a new soul to tend.
Hidden tears suppressed.
A new beginning to the end.
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The Cute Little Lady in The PinkSweaterBy Dawn Maselli, RN
They can take my meal away before I'm done
They can talk to me like I'm dumbThey can refer to me as a "Feeder"Fluff me up to make me look neaterThey talk about me like I'm not HereThey address me as "honey" "cutie and "dear".But there are things they can't do to meAs they insult my dignityOh there are things they can't do to meThey can't take away my memoriesMy Roles through this life cement my presenceWith withered mind they call senescenceI am rich in culture, wisdom and knowledgeThat medical people can't learn in college
I am a mother, a sister, a historian, a wifeI have mastered many roles throughout my lifeI created warm meals in my dayI wiped my children's tears awayI cared for a close knit familyWho look up to and value meAnd now I master another roleDependent patient with golden soulIf just one of "them" would sit with meI'd share with them this historyAnd if one would stay awhileI'd teach them that I'm still God's child.They are so busy this I know
I have aged and have gotten slowThis I must share in written wordI may not be seen but I will be heardThey say I'm anxious, noisy and loudThis life has taught me not to be too proudI am too many things to capture in a letterI am so much more than the lady in the pink sweaterIf you've listened from the startI may help you find your heart.
AssignmentBy Kim Jordan RN
I have nine patients, you are but oneI will walk five miles before I am doneTiptoeing in and out of the roomsDarkened and quiet like silent tombsI try not to wake you, for there is no timeWhen trying to divide eight hours by nine.
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It is my dutyDawn Butler, RN(Pennsylvania)
I walk through those doors with pride,
Who's life will i save tonight?Someone is waiting for me,Someone is alive today because of my duty.Sometimes we cry cause we can't save them all,God sometimes won't let us interfere when he calls.A baby's first breath when he looks at me,The joy of my first delivery.The tear i wipe a way with my own hands,The life ending of a gentle old man.The night seems so dark and the morning so bright.Being a nurse you see life in a different light.Who will i save tonight?Who will hold my hand during their last breath with no fright?
Who will enter this world on my shift?How many mothers will greet their babies with a kiss?I don't know who these special people arebut i will meet them with every callI will hold them tight and help the painI will hold them up when they feel faint.I will be strong when i am neededThat is my job, I am a nurse..that is my duty.
Lily of The ValleyBy Paul Lawrence Dunbar.At the time this was written, the Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing
flower was the Lily-of-theValley and Paul Lawrence Dunbar has justbeena patient at the hospital. This was his tribute to the students.
Sweetest of the flowers a bloomingIn the fragrant vernal days,Is the Lily-of-the-ValleyWith its soft retiring ways.
Well, you chose this humble blossom,As the Nurse's emblem flowerWho grows more like her ideaEvery day and every hour
Like the Lily-of-the-ValleyIn her honesty and worth -Oh! She blooms in truth and virtueIn the humble works of earth.
Though she stands erect in honorWhen the heart of mankind bleeds,
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Still she hides her own deservingIn the beauty of her deeds.
In the silence and the darkness,When no eye may see or know,There her footsteps shod with mercy
and fleet kindness, come and go.
Not amid the sound of plaudits,Not before the garish day;Does she shed her soul's sweet perfume,Does she take her gentle way.
But alike her ideal flower,With its honey-laden breath;Still her heart blooms forth its beautyIn the valley shades of death.
AssignmentBy Kim Jordan, RN
I have nine patients, you are but oneI will walk five miles before I am doneTiptoeing in and out of the roomsDarkened and quiet like silent tombsI try not to wake you, for there is no timeWhen trying to divide eight hours by nine.
Look Closer - A Nurse's ReplyLiz HogbenThis was sent in by Mrs B Boyle.
I came across this poem, when my mother was in the nursing home itwas place in the rooms there,believe it's a reply to the poem, "A Young Girl Still Dwells"
What do we, you ask, what do we see ?Yes, we are thinking when looking at thee!We may seem to be hard when we hurry and fuss,But there's many of you and too few of us.We would like far more time to sit by you and talk,To bath you and feed you and help you to walk,To hear of your lives and the things you have done;Your childhood, your husband, your daughter, your son,But time is against us, there's too much to do-Patients too many and nurses too few.We grieve when we see you so sad and alone,With nobody near you, no friends of your own.We feel all your pain, and know of your fearThat nobody cares now your end is so near.
But nurses are people with feelings as well,And when we're together, you'll often hear tellOf the dearest old Gran in the very end bed,
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And the lovely old Dad, and the things that he said,We speak with compassion and love, and feel sadWhen we think of yours and the joy that you've had.When the time has arrived for you to depart,You leave us behind with an ache in our heart.
When you sleep the long sleep, no more worry or care,There are other old people, and we mist be there.So please understand if we hurry and fuss--There are many of you and too few of us.
I Gave My First Injection TodaySent in by [email protected]
I gave my first injection today,now wait before you get bored and want to walk awayits been a long road to get where I'm at,15 years to be precise now what do you think of that?
This has been my life's dream to take care of the sick and work with a team of caring professionals withall the same goal of ridding aches and pains and doing work that's not in vain.
So maybe now I have your attention so I can tell you my story and you possibly won't find it so boring
I gave my first injection todayand my patient didn't flinchshe said she didn't feel a thing.What a wonderful compliment that she gave to me"a wonderful nurse you are going to be".
I also passed meds and cleaned lots of wounds and held alot of hands before I walked from the rooms.
You wonder how can I be so happy in all this misery?you see I guess I see it different than the average Joe,before you think I am crazy just let me explain.
If I can ease just one pain or dry just one eye or offer just one daughter some comfort when she finds outher mother has just died.I have accomplished my task and have been successful in my goalsto have offered a hand when life has taken its tolls.
See I have been truly blessed to have touched these lives and pray I never find it boring or bothersome todo the meaningless of task.Even when the most trying of patients call and ask.My goal is to answer every time with a smile
and ask for forgiveness when I can'tafter I have gone mile after mile.
Have I told you yet I gave my first injection today.I am a student nurse and for dedication I pray.
An Old Lady's PoemWhen an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was felt that she
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had nothing left of any value. Later, whenthe nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem.Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made anddistributed to every nurse in the hospital.
One nurse took her copy to Ireland. The old lady's sole bequest to posterity
has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of theNorth Ireland Association for Mental Health. A slide presentation has alsobeen made based on her simple, but eloquent, poem. ... And this little oldScottish lady, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author ofthis "anonymous" poem winging across the Internet. Goes to show that we allleave "SOME footprints in time".....
What do you see, nurses, what do you see?What are you thinking when you're looking at me?A crabby old woman, not very wise,Uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes?Who dribbles her food and makes no replyWhen you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try!"
Who seems not to notice the things that you do,And forever is missing a stocking or shoe.....Who, resisting or not, lets you do as you will,With bathing and feeding, the long day to fill....Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?Then open your eyes, nurse; you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still,As I do at your bidding, as I eat at your will.I'm a small child of ten ... with a father and mother,Brothers and sisters, who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,Dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet.A bride soon at twenty -- my heart gives a leap,Remembering the vows that I promised to keep.At twenty-five now, I have young of my own,Who need me to guide and a secure happy home.A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,Bound to each other with ties that should last.At forty, my young sons have grown and are gone,But my man's beside me to see I don't mourn.At fifty once more, babies play round my knee,Again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead;I look at the future, I shudder with dread.For my young are all rearing young of their own,And I think of the years and the love that I've known.I'm now an old woman ... and nature is cruel;'Tis jest to make old age look like a fool.The body, it crumbles, grace and vigor depart,There is now a stone where I once had a heart.But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,And now and again my battered heart swells.
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I remember the joys, I remember the pain,And I'm loving and living life over again.I think of the years .... all too few, gone too fast,And accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, nurses, open and see,
Not a crabby old woman; look closer ... see ME!!Remember this poem when you next meet an old person who you might brush aside without looking atthe young soul within ...... We will one day bethere, too!
One Angel - No WingsByBabs Hurst
I worked the graveyard shift last nightOh my god, I saw some sights!I had a constant stream of admissionsMostly old, with chronic conditions
Gout and asthma, and a few heart painsEven a sprinkling of varicose veinsPeople yelling and wetting their bedsSending us nurses off our heads
Someone let out a ripping fartMade me gasp and clutch my heartThen a snort, a grunt, a yelpThose people really should get help!
That lady in the farthest bedShe was so pale I thought she was deadHer pallor was just a trick of lightMy god!! she sure gave me a fright
I worked my butt off, as per usualCharts, charts, charts for my perusalB/P's were done - standing and lyingI weighed them all and felt like crying
I wiped up shit and dished out pansThen rubbed some butts with my caring handsI did the obs, the whole damn lotGave morning meds then cleaned the grot
So there I was earning my crustEven though I cursed and cussed!I am an Angel dressed in whiteWalking the ward in the midst of night
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I Am A Student NurseSubmitted byBoyd Williams
I am a student nurseI promise to be brave
I graduate in May
I am a student nurseI will not show them I am afraidI will pretend that I have done this a million times or moreSo my patients will feel at ease when I am on the floor
I am a student nurseI promise to be braveI graduate in May
The NurseSubmitted byFrank Paylorof Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
When you are feeling sick, or worse,thank your dear Maker for your nurseWhose tender care and ministrationsare worth sincere congratulations.
The shattered limb, the fevered broware much the same to her somehow.There is a need, a chance to heal,
to ease the pain that you might feel.Through all those precious smilesand words of comfort, as she tendsWith all her sharpened skills and guileswithout complaint, she mends.
Then there comes the daywhen you are sent upon your way-- and you discover, in the end,that you have had a pleasant visit
with a very special friend.
The Proverbs 31 NurseBy Lois Sigmon Turley, RN
Who can find a good natured Nurse?For her price is far above silver and gold.
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She seeks medicines and skills,and works willingly with others.
She gives of herselfand considers her own desires last.
A heartwarming smile is hers,and is made beautiful in her eyes.
She girds herself with honorand strengthens her ability with patience.She perceives that her work is good.Her candle does not go out by night.She lays her hands upon understanding.
She stretches out her hand to the poor;yet, she reaches forth hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of sorrow,for her trust is in God.Pride and humility are her clothing,and she shall rejoice in time to come.
She opens her mouth with comfort,and in her tongue is the law of kindness.Her associates rise up and call her blessed;her patients also praise her kindness.
Many daughters have helped others,
but you excel them all.Favor is deceitful,and beauty is vain.But a Nurse thatfears the Lord --She shall be praised!
What is a Nurse?By Fred Berk, Hospital Photo Guild
If you must get sick, a Nurse is the nicest thing that canhappen to you.Nurse come in all sizes, shapes, colors and ages.Efficiently cheerful, they will rustle past you many times aday.
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When Hercules cleaned the Augean Stables, he set astandard which the Nurse surpasses each day.Buoyed by an immense sympathy for mankind andundismayed by experiences with particular members of that,at times, cantankerous race, they perform miracles of
devotion with effortless cheer.
When you rub your Alladin's Lamp (or sound your buzzer)your little Genie appears. Perhaps they have beensummoned needlessly a dozen times already. But they arecheerfully ready to soothe you, to help you down yourmedicine, to smooth down your bed, to answer your fears.
The Nurse is the Doctor's guard against forgetfulness, hisquestioning conscience, at times his challenge, and at alltimes his skilled right arm.
Their charming cap (well, use to be anyway) perchesundisturbed through the roughest day. They have no self forthemselves. Their all is for their patients. If they are shortwith one patient, it is because they are pressing to return tothe one whose need is greater.
The Big Show (life itself) must go on. This is the Nurse'screed, their battle, their drive. They will fight to the end withevery trick, every knowledge, ever passion.
At the end of the day, the Nurse returns home, physicallyweary, but with their inner light glowing brightly, for theyhave richly earned the peace within themselves.
If you must get sick, you are mighty lucky to have a Nursehappen to you.
Nurse PrayerUnknown Author
Dear Lord, Grant me the Serenityto accept the things I cannot change,The courage to change the things I can,and the Wisdomto hide the bodies of those DoctorsI had to kill because they pushed me too far....
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Survivor PsalmBy Frank Ochberg, MDandGift From Within
I have been victimized.
I was in a fight that wasnot a fair fight.I did not ask for the fight.I lost.There is no shame in losingsuch fights, only in winning.I have reached the stage ofsurvivor and am no longer aslave of victim status.I look back with sadnessrather than hate.
I look forward with hoperather than despair.I may never forget, but I neednot constantly remember.I was a victim.I am a survivor.
I'm Sorry In AdvanceBy Linda Leeson- Licensed Practical Nurse VernonJubilee Hospital Vernon. B.C. Canada
Your beds not made todayBut I have a patient hereWhose chest painwont go awayIm sorry in advanceYoure not happy with your mealDietary does try hard sir,To give it some appealIm sorry in advanceYour morning pills are lateIve a patient climbing out of bedThat I must try to sedateIm sorry in advanceYour mattress isnt softWe do need some new beds maamBut these things do cost a lot.Im sorry in advanceI didnt get to comb your mothers hairIve a patient with emphysema
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Shes scared, she cant get airIm sorry in advanceYour fathers still in painIm trying to reach his doctorIll have to try again
Im sorry in advanceYour dressings arent yet doneBut a patient has just passed away,I offered solace to his son,Im sorry in advanceIm not cheery as a birdIve worked 12 hours, my feet acheI asked for help,but no one heardIm sorry in advanceIve only two hands and two feet
Im trying to care for you, patientYour needs, I want to meetMy 12 hours now are 16,No replacement could be foundMy aching feet they cry outMy head begins to poundIm sorry in advanceI cannot meet your gazeMy eyes are filled with tearsYour face is just a hazeIf I could sit down for a minuteAnd maybe grab a bitePhone my kids to say I love them
And Ill be late again tonightIm sorry in advanceI didnt do all that must be doneIf I worked any fasterId soon begin to runWhen I do get to hold your handOr wipe your furrowed browPlease understand, dear patientI care for you and howI see your pain,I sense your fearYour anger in a glance,Our health care serviceis failing youIm sorry in advance.
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Place Your Healing Touch In My HandsUnknown Author
Help me as I carefor my patients today,
Be there with me,O Lord, I prayMake my words kind--it means so much--And in my hands placeYour healing touchLet your love shinethrough all that I do,So those in needmay hear and feel You.
A Nurse's PrayerUnknown Author
I dedicate myself to thee,0 Lord, my God, this work I undertakeAlone in thy great name, and for thy sake.In ministering to suffering I would learnThe sympathy that in thy heart did burn.Take, then, mine eyes, and teach them to perceiveThe ablest way each sick one to relieve.Guide thou my hands, that e'en their touch may prove
The gentleness and aptness born of love.Bless thou my feet, and while they softly treadMay faces smile on many a sufferer's bed.Touch thou my lips, guide thou my tongue,Give me a work in sermon for each one.Clothe me with patience, strength all tasks to bear,Crown me with hope and love, which know no fear,And faith, that coming face to face with deathShall e'en inspire with joy the dying breath.All through the arduous day my actions guide,All through the lonely night watch by my side,So I shall wake refreshed, with strength to pray,Work in me, through me, with me, Lord, this day.
Dedicated To The Man I Never KnewI work at Good Samaritan (Dayton, Ohio) on the neurologyunit. I love your site. You have done a wonderful job. Thankyou for sharing with us. Here is a poem I have written.
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ByPauline Hamblin
As I tend to you, in your death.I feel I know you, by those you left.You must have been, a wonderful man.
The strengh and character, of your clan
I see love, deep in their eyes.The pain they feel is no disquise.The gentle way , they touch your hand.As you are drifting, to the promised land.
Your children talked, of being raised.Respect and devotion, lived at your place.Grateful to God, they appeared to be.Happy to be a part of your family.
Your wife's heart, is beating loud.Tears well up, her eyes did cloud.Unable to speak, she begins to cry.Begging to God, to not let you die.
So you see, my friend, this life is past.But the values you left, will always last.Though I never knew you, I know you well.Your life, your love, their eyes did tell.
Dedicated to the patients that I have attended to over theyears.Although I might not know them when they first arrive thelove anddevotion of their families tell their true story. Regretfully notall patientssurvive, but the love they have given their family will last alifetime.
An Old Woman
(Note: This poem was found in the bedside table of anelderly woman living in an extended care facility upon herdeath.)
What do you see nurses,What do you see?Are you thinking,When you look at me;
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A crabbit old woman,Not very wiseUncertain of habit,With far away eyes,Who dribbles her food,
And makes no replyWhen you say in a loud voice'I do wish you'd try',Who seems not to noticeThe things that you do,And forever is losingA stocking or shoe,Who, unresisting or not,Lets you do as you will,With bathing and feeding,The long day to fill,
Is that what you're thinking,Is that what you see?Then open your eyes nurse.You're not looking at me.As I'll tell you who I am,As I sit here so still,As I rise at your bidding,As I eat at your will.I'm a small child of tenWith a mother and fatherBrothers and sisters,Who love one another,A young girl of sixteen,With wings on her feet,Dreaming that soon nowA lover she'll meet;A bride soon at twenty;My heart gives a leap,Remembering the vowsThat I promised to keep;At twenty-five nowI have young of my own,Who need me to buildA secure, happy home.A young woman of thirty,My young now grow fast,Bound to each otherWith ties that should last;At forty, my young ones,Now grown, will soon be gone,
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But my man stays beside me,To see I don't mourn.At fifty once more,babies play round my knee.Again we know children,
My loved one and me.Dark days are upon me,My husband is dead,I look at the future,I shudder with dread,For my young are all busy,Rearing young of their own,And I thin of the yearsAnd the love I have known.I'm an old woman now,And nature is cruel.
'tis her jest to make old ageTo look like a fool.The body is crumbled,Grace and vigor depart.There is now a stoneWhere I once had a heart.But inside this old carcass,A young girl still dwells,And now and againMy battered heart swells.I remember the joys,I remember the pain,And I'm loving and livingLife over again.I think of the years,All too few,Gone to fast,And accept the stark factthat nothing can last.So open your eyes, nurses,Open and see,Not a crabbit old woman;Look closer ... see ME.
At Your Side He Will RemainI love your website and enjoy reading the poem about thelittle boy talking about his nurse. Here is a poem I wrote forthe things we face. I am a nurse in ICU and have been there
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for 8 years. I need God to help me through the things I mustdeal with.
ByBecky Coleman
I watch the tears fall of those who stand by.I see their despair tearing them apart inside.I feel so helpless as I watch at their side.Trying to give hope, as my feelings I hide.I want to tell them not to cry.I want to say, "this is only a body - the soul shall never die."At the time I know these words won't erase the pain.Sometimes silence is better than words spoke in vain.A gentle touch, a simple nod is all I can do -except a prayer to our Father to see them through.For I know His touch is gentle and will guide them through
their pain,and help them realize, at their side He will remain.
On CallAnonymous
When the beeper went off you were dreaming about runningaway from yourkid's ball game and your job and your home.
On your way you review all the steps of pronouncement -you look for thehospice death packet and think about what you will do andsay.
They meet you at the door, quietly leading you to the room.
Everyone is silent, the lights are dim, they are waiting,expectantly.
On the hospital bed lies a skeleton - a shell of a person -
pasty in color,motionless. There is no heartbeat, no peripheral pulse, norespiration,the eyes are open and fixed.
You wonder who this person was, what she was like whenshe was young,
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what kind of suffering she endured. You tell the family thatthe patient has died.
The young girl begins to cry, her brother holds her, theirmother - the patient's
daughter - sits stoically next to the bed, hands folded in herlap.
You stop the CADD pump and gently remove the sub-qcatheter. You turn offthe oxygen concentrator and remove the nasal cannula. Youexcuse yourselfto make the phone calls.
The family sits next to their now gone grandmother -touching her hands, crying,
reassuring each other that they have done the best for her.
The daughter, the spine (pillar?)of strength, is not crying butgentlytalking to her children.
You notify the doctor - he is sad, says he's known her for 30years, probably willgo to the funeral. You notify the minister who says he'll beright there.
The funeral director will arrive in 30 minutes. The daughterwitnesses for you asyou pour morphine and Percocet tablets into the toilet andflush. Paperwork.
The daughter tells you her mother suffered from cancer for20 years off and on- but that the last 3 months were fast and painful until thehospice nurses got thepain under control with the CADD pump.
You calculate what the cancer must have occluded, eroded,robbed, to causesuch pain. There is cachexia. There are pedal contractures.The abdomen is grossly enlarged.
You tell the daughter the good things you see - howbeautifully the skin has been kept,not a hint of breakdown; how nice the hair looks, such an
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obvious sign of the loveand devotion her mother has received.
The two young children leave the room and you and thedaughter bathe the mother
one last time, change the linens, and make her comfortable.
You talk to each other and to the body. The daughter beginsto cry - you hold her,like the child she is at this moment - the child who no longerhas a mother.
The doorbell rings, the funeral director has arrived. Youencourage the daughter andher family to come into the dining room and have a cup oftea. You go back to the
bedroom to assist with the transfer of the body into thefuneral bag.
Such finality when the zipper goes over the face - you wantto keep the familydelicately away from the sight of this. It is painful enough foryou.
The minister arrives. The family gathers in the living room.They thank you forbeing there and for giving up your sleep in their hour of
need.You pack the loose medical supplies, strip the bed, break itdown, gather thetrash, turn out the bedroom light, and close the door. Theequipment companywill come in the morning for the larger supplies. You saygood-bye and leave.
Outside, alone in your car, you cry.
A few months later at a mutual friend's wedding, you see thedaughter.When she sees you she smiles with sadness in her eyes.
You smile back. She knows. You know. She knows youknow. That is all. That is enough.
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