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When we empower nurses, they make excellent decisions.

Barbara Blakeney

We cannot physically be there to help our fellow nurses so we offer this Labor Day 'Labor of Love' challenge in an effort to do what we can to help.

Sandra Taylor

The families have become the doctors, the nurses and the social workers.

Dr. John Talbott

They're getting a lot more positive comments, not only the nurses, but the maintenance person. A patient might notice how wonderful the grounds look.

Rhonda Bright

When you carry a baby, you never plan to bury them. And when one of my nurses brought me this angel gown, it was just beautiful with this beautiful stitch work on it. It meant a lot.

Hope Lienau

The nurses would have to hold (the babies) next to them, in order for them to maintain their temperature.

Cheryl Ory

This gift ensures that future nurses will receive an excellent education.

Maureen Keefe

We find attorneys who aren't attorneys and nurses who aren't nurses. People just aren't truthful on their resumes.

Jason Morris

All the nurses were in tears, and we're pretty tough.

Katy Jones

Nurses are with patients 10-12 hours per day giving old-fashioned care. This is a chance to say thank you to them.

Kathy Hull

Nurses are 100 percent [toward MER], so why wouldn't an entire clinic where the nurse works be as well?

Thomas Sherwood

His bed was actually touching the nurses' station.

Helen Bolanos

I guess it's the nurses' mentality: the job's done. They did their job.

Rick Hernandez

We wanted to be able to link in some of the alerts that come off the equipment to the pagers for the nurses and other clinicians on the floor.

Paul Mcauley

For the protection of the country, nurses are being asked to risk their health in the line of duty, ... There should be some form of compensation, just like anyone else killed or injured in the line of duty.

Andrew Stern

In some locations, it's hard to recruit nurses, thus the need for overtime. The underlying issue is there aren't enough nurses in Illinois, so that's what the governor is working to address.

Susan Hofer

People are looking for someone to fix problems. He's out there attacking nurses, firefighters and teachers. That's not what people want to see.

Steve Westly

As union membership for nurses unions grows, so does our ability to speak out.

Cheryl Johnson

For nurses, this designation really indicates that this is a place where you would want to work. It's a nurse-friendly environment and one in which they [nurses] are really valued.

Diana Russell

I think the patients, when they're educated to what an ambulatory care center is -- what it does, the same surgeons, the same nurses, the same quality of care -- then those fears are quickly allayed.

Bill Barber

A Down syndrome child is very strong-willed. They had to hold her down to get it (blood). There were two nurses in there, and I was standing in the hallway crying.

Rebekah Garvin

Registered nurses start at $20 to $25 an hour in a hospital. But salaries soon flatten out.

Paula Stearns

Our doctors and nurses should not have to rely on CNN or word of mouth for critical public health information.

Charles Saunders

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Chris Fowler

It's really about the same number. The nurse's office is not nearly as crowded today as it was Monday. They're busy, don't get me wrong, but they're not as busy as yesterday. I'm sure everything will get back to normal in the next day or so.

Teri Mowery

It's hard to measure what doesn't happen. Nurses prevent very bad things from happening.

Barbara Blakeney

Immediately, when you think of hospital, you think of doctors and nurses. But our hospital is a big place and there are lots of jobs.

Vickie Simmons

It's awesome being home, ... It's great to spend time with my wife and kids without having nurses and doctors coming in and out.

John Bennett

We are definitely one of the bigger employers in Coventry. We have someone for everything - med techs, nurses, food service and social workers.

John Gage

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

Billy Barty

Nurses are required to be patient advocates and do no harm.

Deborah Burger

Nurses are my heroes... We dealt with a lot of oncology nurses... They are unsung and underpaid.

Marcia Wallace

The facts will determine our next course of action. If there is evidence of criminal impropriety [by Nurses on Hand], it will be pursued.

Paul Larrabee

Nurses are being utilized in a variety of ways besides at the bedsides in this day and age. It's different than it was 20 to 30 years ago.

Margaret Heffers

All of a sudden, a bunch of nurses came and told us we had to run upstairs because they was shootin' at the helicopter.

Kelly Martin

I know all the nurses and everybody else here. When you get used to somebody, it's hard to change. You trust your regular doctor and nurse.

Daisy Torres

To receive the Great 100 Award is a real honor. We are extremely proud of our nurses and the excellence they represent.

Linda Wallace

The workshop will be attended by nurses, doctors and hospital management. The aim is to come up with a strategy of how best to address these complaints in terms of the allocation of resources.

Sizwe Kupelo

It will continue to grow because of the demand for nurses and caregivers. It may not be replicated, since it is already at its peak, but it will still be in double digits.

Diwa Guinigundo

It's just amazing the number of things that nurses could contribute in that setting.

Jill Iliffe

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Bill Frist

We are currently down 1,000 nurses in Fairfax. That need is only going to grow with time as the older nurses begin to retire.

Pat Trahan

Nurses have been essentially without a contract for going on two years. The talks have stalled.

Sheilah Garland

So many of them have gone above and beyond to take care of the needs of those injured here and in the surrounding areas. Many of our nurses and doctors have not left the hospital since the hurricane struck.

Ron Seal

Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.

Carleen Courtney

Our practice is currently not delivering in the birth center because there are no nurses.

Julie Gold

At the same time the government has failed to meet that promise, we know that there will be thousands of nurses who are due to retire in 2008.

Shelley Martel

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We can't afford to have nurses on the road all the time.

Arnie Burchianti

Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments.

Carolyn Adams

There's such a wide range of things that nurses can do to help improve the health of a community in general medical practice.

Jill Iliffe

Most of what I was doing was stocking supplies, ... I was looking for an environment where I could place bandages and help nurses.

Gary Green

This is a great victory for patients and nurses. We have been fighting long and hard to protect the interests of our patients, and we've finally done that.

Melissa Clark

The Iraqis that Col. Winslow and the other doctors and nurses are treating will remember that help more than anything else, and that's important.

Alan Levin

Currently, there are 19 nurses who have children enrolled in the center.

Jim Richardson

What we're doing is collecting stories of nurses who served at any time, in any war, from any side, doing any job in any location.

Patricia Rushton

When you're doing a second career and going back to school you're very motivated. And I think they'll make very good nurses.

Heather Haas

And in this area, we also have drug companies that use nurses for clinical trials and a wide range of things.

Linda Lacey

He's smiling again, eating, waving and saying 'hi' to the doctors and nurses.

Guanglin Zhao

The nurses brought each of us a piece of cake.

Lucille Mancke

I looked at them as if they were the Grim Reaper. I tried to avoid them. I told nurses to get them out of my face.

Tracey York

It's amazing to us, although we're both registered nurses, people will automatically assume we're not professionals.

Stephanie Nicholson

Something delicious about Warren Beatty, a well-known womanizer, making his debut in front of a bunch of nurses.

Peter Bart

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

As nurses, we're on the front lines of health care. We know how important it is that everyone have access to the best medical technology and cures, not just a wealthy few.

Deborah Burger

It was comforting to have the doctor and nurses. They were at my beck and call.

Everett Cornell

Five Health Ministry workers including nurses, doctors and a driver were killed when gunmen fired at them in their clinic last night.

Enayatullah Enayat

Most of the nurses at my hospital did not turn their patients every two hours, mostly because it is so hard to get staff members to help. Also, many are very well aware of the dangers of back injury.

Elizabeth White

Also, if someone has a medical emergency during therapy, doctors and nurses are right here.

Ed Hardy