#nursing

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#close #close friend #experience #family #family member

I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter. ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#balanced diet #because #daughter #diet #eating

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#animosity #appears #me #nursing #registering

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#certain #film #goes #himself #home

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. ↗

— Edward G. Rendell

#community-based #covered #currently #far #home

It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#common #homes #hospitals #nursing #operate

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. ↗

— Florence King

#bunch #floor #found #home #i

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

#business #dentistry #distinct #engineering #ethics

Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and turns it on as high as it will go. She provides a seal with her hand cupped over the plastic mask, over the nose and mouth of the toddler, and methodically provides oxygenated air. Doyle’s tiny chest rises and falls while I listen with my stethoscope. I am reaching for another breathing tube. “Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest. ↗

— Ruth McLeod-Kearns

#doctor #drama #emergency-room #er #family

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#breastfeeding #nursing #witty #beauty