Nursing Quotes

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

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

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

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

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.

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

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.

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.

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

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and 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.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.