“I try to feel my own edges in the
low light. I send my mind to the
outer edges of me — where do I end?
I send myself to my innermost edges,
and I see that in both directions
I am infinite.”
Source: Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
“Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should go to the States because there, health care is a commodity for sale and you can shop around for the best product. Patients are the customers and if you're rich you get better health care than if you're poor. In Canada, health care is a basic human right, a service that every human being deserves. Tell me, have any of you ever seen someone get preferential treatment? A Canadian over a non-resident? A white person over one of color? A VIP over an ordinary citizen?”
Source: A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit
“Was it not all a dead-end occupation, nursing back to health men to be patched up and returned to the trenches, or a man to be patched up, court-martialled, and shot? The difference lay in the Ideal.”
Source: The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse
“So, while I knew what burnout was, I never thought it would happen to me. Even-keeled and rarely stressed out, I perhaps thought I was superwoman and nothing could break me. Burnout carries a stigma as a sign of weakness and since I am not weak, I think my young helper mind couldn't reconcile how burnout could come knocking at my door.”
Source: Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
“Letting confusion get in the way of changing your diet and lifestyle will deter you from facing the reality of how hard it is to give up sugar. If you’ll forgive the expression, I am not going to sugar-coat it: sugary drinks, donuts, cake, cookies and candy are out. And there’s no “okay in moderation.” What does that mean: once a week, once on the weekend, only on holidays? It probably doesn't mean Friday after work until Monday morning!”
Source: Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
“We get used to seeing the patients ill; even used to them dying. When they do we get upset if we know them. We can't get upset for those we don't know. We have to forget them. We'd all have nervous breakdowns if we didn't.”
Source: My Friend the Professor
“Bad backs are an occupational disease of nursing.”
“Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.”
“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Obtaining a certificate in nursing assistant trains students to provide quality care to residents in nursing homes.”
Source: Aniyah Certified Nursing Assistant