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The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
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“People associate initiations and hazings with frat houses and the military, but new nurses get "initiated" too (usually, but not always, less violently).”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“Sometimes providing care means looking people in the eye with kindness and saying difficult things they might not want to hear, lending the ear that doesn't have the stethoscope in it.”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“Did anyone grab the penis?' she yelled.
The silence that followed was her answer: it must still be lying in the floor back in triage. When backup arrived, Nikki ran over to get the penis.”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
The silence that followed was her answer: it must still be lying in the floor back in triage. When backup arrived, Nikki ran over to get the penis.”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“When the physician didn't immediately react, Nikki clarified the situation: 'Dude just cut off his penis.”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“I function best in shit is the way to put it”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“If you walk into a room during a shift and find a nurse asleep, you're immediately going to back out as silently as possible.”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“What happens on the night shift stays on the night shift”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
“When you become a hospital nurse you operate on the assumption that someone has died in every bed. It's not creepy, it's just a reality of the job.”
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
― The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines
