i used to work oncology and we were always going to "nausea and vomiting" dinners. i'm a paper nurse now but i sure miss bedside nursing. my daughter and her husband are nurses and love what they do. my neice went into nursing after talking with me. she's a "baby nurse" so still getting her feet wet (maybe literally!) and says she really likes it but its scary.

And how are WE this morning?

I am going to embroider them. I think I am going to embroider them around the boarder of the quilt.

Are you on my -hit list today?
(meaning did you have a BM)

Leave "funny" sayings to T-shirts. Quilts are to be a comfort. Use kind sayings. Even we nurses have a tender side. It's true we laugh about human problems, but laughing makes an unpleasant job less personal. Focus on love and caring - that's why we stay in this profession.

I really like the ones from Sherry ! I am a nurse also, but I work in a dialysis unit. Here are some more sayings and some thoughts.
" Where does it hurt? "
" How can I help? "
" I'll let the doctor know."
Love is a verb.
Sometimes anger is fear in disguise.
Nursing is a gentle art.
Care for each patient as if they were your own grandparent.
Hugs are free.

Speaking of those things nurses will talk about even at mealtime-----my dear recently deceased brother used to shake his head and say he could not have been married to a nurse----thought I had done things like---male catheterization that he would not want his wife to do.........My DH loves me anyway!

I've been a nurse for 20 years. My favorite thing to say is "I'm a nurse. What's you super hero power?"

Dawn

I love it!

nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.

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

Caring is the essence of nursing.


Nurses can take the pressure.


Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

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