Awareness Quotes

"Three: Don't be his friend/You know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the mornin'/And if you're under him, you ain't gettin' over him"

- Dua Lipa

"Nursing would be a dream job, if there were no doctors."

- Gerhard Kocher

"I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. Your heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby."

- Kate Beckinsale

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show."

- Andrew Wyeth

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity."

- Novala Takemoto

"We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that."

- Philip Pullman

"There is a wilder solitude in winter, / When every sense is pricked alive and keen."

- May Sarton

"You never know who you are married to until you get divorced."

"No, RN does not stand for ‘Refreshments and Narcotics."

"Yes, I am a nurse. No, I don’t want to look at it."

"Hand sanitizer has started to become your best friend."

"You know you work in healthcare when you can discuss puke and bowel movements at the lunch table and no one flinches."

"Sometimes I have to remind myself around my non-nurse friends not to talk about bodily functions."

"No, I will not rub your feet. I am a nurse, not a masseur."

"May your cup runneth over, unless it’s that urine specimen cup you’re trying to hand me."

"How many nurses does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None! They delegate it to the nursing student."

"When I heard 2020 was going to be the year of the nurse, this is not what I expected…"

"The 3 words most people want to hear: ‘I love you.’ The 3 words nurses want to hear: ‘Alert, Oriented, and Ambulatory."

"3 AM: the time when you remember you forgot to chart that thing, bring that lady her water, or pass that med."

"Laughter is the best medicine… except when treating diarrhea."

"Every nurse has a best friend, Pam: LorazePAM, DiazePAM, and ClonazePAM."

"Laughter is not the best medicine… Propofol is!"

"Showering won’t be enough after today. I’ll need to be autoclave."

"TGIF? Sorry, not familiar with that term. I’m a nurse."

"You know you’re a nurse if you can drink a pot of coffee and go directly to sleep."

"What would I do without the patient’s family members telling me how to do my job?"

"If I collapse at work, here is a list of doctors that I don’t want working on me!"

"If you walk a mile in a nurses shoes, you’ll walk a whole lot farther than a mile, and your back will kill you at the end."

"Nurses can’t fix crazy, all they can do is document it."