Favorite Motivational Quote Nurses Week Contest

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National Nurses Week is all about celebrating the nursing profession and what better way than remembering what keeps you motivated. Share your favorite motivational quote in the comments below. It can be serious or light-hearted but remember that it could earn you a cool $250 courtesy of the University of Maryland! Winners will be announced May 13, 2019

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

The original quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is longer than that, but that part in particular I apply to my work.

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"I didn't become a nurse to get a front-row seat to other people's tragedies. I did it because I knew the world was beating and so was I. And somewhere inside I knew the only way to stop my own bleeding was to learn how to stop someone else's."

-author unknown

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

These are the words of my first LPN instructor:

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

This is a quote from my other LPN instructor:

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Treat patients the way you want to be treated because you'll be a patient one day too. Would you want a nurse like you? -- Me

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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
– E.E. Hale, American writer

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You don't have a doctor's order to care.

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Specializes in ER.

"S*** runs downhill and payday is Friday"

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"It's ok to cry." ~This was said in response to a patient not making it.

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"Fish are our friends, no food."- Bruce Finding Nemo in regards to new Nurses on the floor.

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