Happy Nurses Week! While this whole week is a celebration of nurses, it is the Wednesday between May 6 and May 12 of each year that we celebrate National School Nurse Day. The theme for School Nurse Day 2016 is “Culture of Safety: It Starts With YOU.” The theme celebrates and honors the significant contribution that school nurses make every day to improve the safety, health, and academic success of all students. RN’s in schools play a necessary role, contributing every day care to special needs students, while also maintaining health and wellness in the overall school and community. A healthy student most obviously has the ability to learn more effectively and experience intellectual growth.
According to NurseDay.org, in the United States alone, more than 73,000 school nurses provide help to students while they meet new challenges that students face today. Nurses’ work to support education and advance student health, due to this dedication we have collected 15 quotes to honor and celebrate the amazing work that school nurses due each day for our students and the next generation.
“It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing.”—Mother Theresa
“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”—Florence Nightingale
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”—Orison Swett Marden
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”—The Bible
“Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.”—Val Saintsbury
“Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring.”—Sharon Hudacek
“A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.”—Carrie Latet
“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.”—Lois Capps
“The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses.”—Carolyn Jarvis
“Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.”—Gary Veale
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”— Florence Nightingale
“Caring is the essence of nursing.”—Jean Watson
“Nursing encompasses 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
“Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are ‘just doing our jobs.’”—Christine Belle
“We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is: caring and having a desire to make a difference.”—Erin Pettengill
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