Inspiration can come in many forms. Sometimes just the right quote can get you through a hard day. Think about writing your favorites down and hanging them around your workspace. Other nurses on your team or in your facility might enjoy reading them as well. A simple phrase can turn your day around.
Here are 10 nursing quotes to get you through a hard day on the job:
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A nurse is not what you do. It is what you are … I am a nurse. It’s not what I do, it’s what I AM.
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Save one life, you’re a hero. Save 100 lives, you’re a nurse.
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Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring. – Sharon Hudacek
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Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.
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A nurse is one who opens the eyes of a newborn & gently closes the eyes of a dying man. It is indeed a high blessing to be the first and last to witness the beginning and end of life.
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Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal flaw. – Dr. Jean Watson, RN, Doctor, Author and Professor
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Nurses encompass an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. –Myrtle Aydelotte
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When you are a nurse, you know that every day you will touch a life, or a life will touch yours.
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Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your presence felt.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What gets you motivated?
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