{"quotes":[{"text":"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["childhood","funny-nursing","graveyard-shift","night-shift","nursing"],"id":8499,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care was a little piece of death she would carry around with her until the end of her own life. But the alternative seemed so unfeeling. Tina and the other nurses could crack jokes and banter back and forth about contestants on American Idol before the body of a deceased patient was even cold. It was a coping mechanism, she knew, but not necessarily one she thought she would ever adopt. There had to be something in between. Olive had been called a bleeding heart before, but her heart no longer had the same plasticity and tenderness—it was scarred and worn beyond repair.","author":"Andrea Lochen","tags":["coping","death","lesson","loss","nurse","nursing","patients","repeat","year"],"id":14172,"author_id":"Andrea+Lochen"},{"text":"I've been melted into somethingtoo easy to spill. I make moreand more of myself in orderto make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehowhe's made more of me, too.","author":"Brenda Shaughnessy","tags":["breastfeeding","motherhood","nursing"],"id":40340,"author_id":"Brenda+Shaughnessy"},{"text":"Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and turns it on as high as it will go. She provides a seal with her hand cupped over the plastic mask, over the nose and mouth of the toddler, and methodically provides oxygenated air. Doyle’s tiny chest rises and falls while I listen with my stethoscope. I am reaching for another breathing tube.“Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.","author":"Ruth McLeod-Kearns","tags":["child","doctor","drama","emergency-room","er","family","life","love","medical","nurse","nursing","sad","short-story","trauma"],"id":66499,"author_id":"Ruth+McLeod-Kearns"},{"text":"Once you open your home to nursing, you essentially become the employer of a small staff, even if you aren’t signing the paychecks. As in any workplace, the staff needs to know the rules and expectations, and it is your job to set them and communicate them well. This is your new job; you’ve been promoted to Home Care CEO.","author":"Charisse Montgomery","tags":["ceo","communicate","communication","home","manage","nursing"],"id":67406,"author_id":"Charisse+Montgomery"},{"text":"A good upbringing is necessary for a long life, but sometimes the patience of the young trees is sorely tested. As I mentioned in chapter 5, 'Tree Lottery,' acorns and beechnuts fall at the feet of large 'mother trees.' Dr. Suzanne Simard, who helped discover maternal instincts in trees, describes mother trees as dominant trees widely linked to other trees in the forest through their fungal-root connections. These trees pass their legacy on to the next generation and exert their influence in the upbringing of the youngsters. 'My' small beech trees, which have by now been waiting for at least eighty years, are standing under mother trees that are about two hundred years old -- the equivalent of forty-year-olds in human terms. The stunted trees can probably expect another two hundred years of twiddling their thumbs before it is finally their turn. The wait time is, however, made bearable. Their mothers are in contact with them through their root systems, and they pass along sugar and other nutrients. You might even say they are nursing their babies.","author":"Peter Wohlleben","tags":["connection","fungi","fungus","mothers","nursing","time","trees"],"id":165888,"author_id":"Peter+Wohlleben"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jessica Bates","tags":["breastfeeding","children","love","motherhood","nursing","poetry"],"id":195627,"author_id":"Jessica+Bates"},{"text":"(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the importance of a whole series of health reforms. For example, many people had argued that training nurses was a waste of time, because patients cared for by trained nurses actually had a higher mortality rate than those treated by untrained staff. Nightingale, however, pointed out that this was only because more serious cases were being sent to those wards with trained nurses. If the intention is to compare the results from two groups, then it is essential to assign patients randomly to the two groups. Sure enough, when Nightingale set up trials in which patients were randomly assigned to trained and untrained nurses, it became clear that the cohort of patients treated by trained nurses fared much better than their counterparts in wards with untrained nurses.","author":"Simon Singh","tags":["medicine","nursing","science"],"id":195915,"author_id":"Simon+Singh"},{"text":"When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.","author":"Charisse Montgomery","tags":["care","disability","home","medical","nurse","nursing","special-needs"],"id":226888,"author_id":"Charisse+Montgomery"},{"text":"I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["3","3-years","africa","africa-will-shake","african","african-christians","african-continent","africans","archbishops","bishops","business","business-ideas","depend","dependency","direction","doctors","entrepreneurial","entrepreneurs","food-for-thought","hospital","ideas","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","know","knowledge","lecture","lecturers","medical","medical-doctors","medicine","men-of-god","notice","noticed","nurse","nurses","nursing","nursing-interventions","nursing-managements","past","pastor-s-messages","pastors","politicians","politics","preach","preachers","priorities","prophesy","prophets","refuse","regards","self-improvement-motivator","shake-africa","spiritual","spiritual-integrity","spirituality","teachings","three-years","three-years-ago","word-of-god","workers"],"id":262663,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}