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"Mental health nursing is difficult and emotionally trying, an ability to distance oneself from another’s misery is essential."
- Nurse DeeDee Ramona, quoted on mentalhealthnurse.org

"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."
- Lynn Keegan

"A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
- Carrie Latet

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."
- Mother Theresa

"Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors."
- Gerhard Kocher

"The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe."
- Florence Nightingale

"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
- Quintilian

"I say to anyone considering a career in nursing: know that it is a demanding job, both physically and mentally. You will have to make sacrifices for the job, but the benefits are worth it."
- Nurse Heather L., quoted on discovernursing.com

"As caregivers, we do not escape the human grief which surrounds us. Those ofyou who have beenaround a while know that it can have a cumulative effect. Often it is not recognized, byourselvesor the institutions, which can have tragic consequences for us, and therefore for our patients..."
- Dr David Morrison

"My advice for anyone considering a career in nursing and for those newly graduated nurses is to ALWAYS remember to be patient focused. If you are delivering direct bedside care or managing a group of nurses who deliver direct care, please never forget the reason you are there…. to comfort and care for the PATIENT!"
- Valerie Ackerman, Nurse

"I feel that nursing will become a career field of ever increasing specialties. As technology gets more sophisticated, Nurses will have to become more specialized and educated to meet the specific needs of patients. An aging population I feel will lend itself to RNs becoming more care directors than care givers. "
- Kenneth Beasley, Nurse

"My advice to someone considering a career in medicine is to search oneself and decide what type of goal you have. There are many aspects of health care one can enter from performing or assisting with technologically advanced procedures to helping clients learn the basics of their disease process. Some may enjoy the personal touch while others might like a fast pace of setting such as the operating or emergency room."
- Teresa Conlin, Nurse

"Go into medicine for the right reason. Don’t make it about the money---make it about caring for those who need your healing hands. If it isn’t in your heart, patients will feel it."
- Palma Iacovitti, Nurse

"I love working in surgical services because we see patients of every age and that is unique. I believe that nursing is the best profession in the world; we share the ‘moments’ of patients’ lives. Some of these moments are happy and some sad, yet we get to connect with people in a very personal way.”
- Michele Ridge, RN, MSN, Bloomington Hospital, IN

"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."
- Rawsi Williams

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is."
- Norman Cousins

"Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.”
- Abraham Maslow

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