Nursing Experience Quotes

Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong.

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.