Nurses Quotes

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On directing the "ER" (1994) episode "Motherhood": "When I was directing ER, I didn`t want to stand out. Everyone else is wearing all that crap. I wanted to fit in. I didn`t want to be the odd man out. I wanted to be inside, not on the outside. When I was directing the ER thing, the emergency room guys wore the green scrubs. I wore those for a few days. Then, I wore the blue scrubs, which were the surgeons,` for a few days. When I wore the nurse`s pink scrubs, though, that`s when I became a hero on the set. The nurses didn`t think I was going to throw in with them. I ended the episode, the last two days, wearing the nurses` scrubs. When I walked on the set all the nurses applauded me. They were like, `Oh my God, he`s so cool!`"

- Quentin Tarantino

We cannot physically be there to help our fellow nurses so we offer this Labor Day `Labor of Love` challenge in an effort to do what we can to help.

- Sandra Taylor

We got together this morning (Wednesday) at the hospital and Geanene Marshall, who has been very instrumental in getting the effort organized, suggested the Labor of Love idea. We started calling radio stations and other hospitals. We`ve tried to reach as many people as we could. We even faxed a copy to the North Carolina Nurses Association.

- Sandra Taylor

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

- James A. Michener

I`m an Air force Brat and I`ve lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

- Pam Grier

From the very beginning, we knew that following the majority of our nurses` decision to withdraw recognition would be considered contentious by the union. Given the number of issues raised by the union in their challenge, we are not surprised that the local National Labor Relation`s Board office would seek advice from the national office in Washington. We look forward to the national office reviewing the matter and remain confident that the majority of our nurses` voices will be heard.

- Barbara Allen

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

- Billy Barty

(B.C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative.) The province commends the Lois Fish Palliative Society for creating a source of comprehensive information on palliative resources in B.C., ... By January 2006, we are hopeful this resource will link directly with B.C. NurseLine and further enhance the ability of the nurses to provide greater assistance to British Columbians with end-of-life care, service providers and organizations in their communities.

- George Abbott

Sometimes I would get letters from nurses saying how grateful they were that a nurse was finally being portrayed as a person, a caring human being. As far as the audience was concerned, I think it identifies with at least one or two or maybe all of us. We have become people to them and never caricatures. We`re very real to them.

- Loretta Swit

I mean, certain things had to remain the same. She had to remain one of the antagonists because that was the structure of the show. In the second season, we saw for the first time that she was unhappy with Frank and wanted more from her life. Then around the third or fourth year, in an episode called `The Nurses`, Hot Lips gave the nurses a speech telling them how lonely she was because she was in charge and that`s the way it was, so she couldn`t really have any friends. Her marriage and her divorce changed her. Her affair with Hawkeye in `Comrades in Arms` changed both characters, so that they were never really rivals again.

- Loretta Swit

It`s awesome being home, ... It`s great to spend time with my wife and kids without having nurses and doctors coming in and out.

- John Bennett

All of a sudden, a bunch of nurses came and told us we had to run upstairs because they was shootin` at the helicopter,

- Kelly Martin

Also, if someone has a medical emergency during therapy, doctors and nurses are right here.

- Ed Hardy

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

- Adnan Pachachi

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.

- Al Siebert

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

- Alana Muller

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 a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.

- Alison Mau

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

- Allan Meltzer

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

- Alon Tal

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.

- Alon Tal

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

- American Society

Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

- American Society

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

- Anabella Hedman

Our doctors and nurses should not have to rely on CNN or word of mouth for critical public health information,

- Anshukant Taneja

Our doctors and nurses should not have to rely on CNN or word of mouth for critical public health information.

- Anshukant Taneja

Most of the nurses at my hospital did not turn their patients every two hours, mostly because it is so hard to get staff members to help. Also, many are very well aware of the dangers of back injury.

- Antonio Bryant

Most of what I was doing was stocking supplies, ... I was looking for an environment where I could place bandages and help nurses.

- Anwar el-Sadat

There`s a lot of turnover because a lot of people who go back to the mainland for other reasons. We need new nurses all the time, and traveling nurses and that makes it a challenge.

- Ardith Knechtel

When you`re doing a second career and going back to school you`re very motivated. And I think they`ll make very good nurses.

- Ardith Knechtel

I think that`s not only an excellent thing for the state, not only the state, but for nurses and students. I actually went to a program similar to that.

- Ardith Knechtel

We are definitely one of the bigger employers in Coventry. We have someone for everything - med techs, nurses, food service and social workers.

- Art Oksuita

Nurses, physicians, counselors but there are probably needs for others. And at the moment the work that`s going on is work identifying potential volunteers who would be available to go at very short notice potentially as early as this weekend.

- Art Weaver

People are looking for someone to fix problems. He`s out there attacking nurses, firefighters and teachers. That`s not what people want to see.

- Barbara Kaiser

He has taken a hard right turn. The Governor is attacking nurses, firefighters and teachers. It is clear he is taking the state in the wrong direction. California can`t afford four more years of his politics or his policies.

- Barbara Kaiser

Governor Schwarzenegger has taken the state in the wrong direction. He has spent too much of his time attacking teachers, nurses and firefighters.

- Barbara Kaiser

Physicians, nurses ... have been documented repeatedly to not wash their hands properly, ... At best, it is 40 percent of the time that we recommend that they should wash their hands (that they really do).

- Barry Boone

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

- Senator John Kerry