#nursing

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#bent #delaware #delaware state #education #nursing

It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care was a little piece of death she would carry around with her until the end of her own life. But the alternative seemed so unfeeling. Tina and the other nurses could crack jokes and banter back and forth about contestants on American Idol before the body of a deceased patient was even cold. It was a coping mechanism, she knew, but not necessarily one she thought she would ever adopt. There had to be something in between. Olive had been called a bleeding heart before, but her heart no longer had the same plasticity and tenderness—it was scarred and worn beyond repair ↗

— Andrea Lochen

#death #lesson #loss #nurse #nursing

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. ↗

— Alice Munro

#children #come #deep #going #gone

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#before #grow #iraq #know #liberty

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it. ↗

— Clara Barton

#nursing #inspirational

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die. ↗

— Marcus Sedgwick

#uniforms #men