"Caring is the essence of nursing."

--

Source : Jean Watson (1999). “Nursing: Human Science and Human Care : a Theory of Nursing”, p.33, Jones & Bartlett Learning

Jean Watson

#Nursing Quotes #Caring Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.”
“As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.”
“One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.”
“When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.”

Source : George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books
“God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.”
“America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I donâ€™t cry. I say maybe itâ€™s meant to be.”
“You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”

You may also like:

Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
Clara Barton
Nursing
Elizabeth Blackwell
Medical Doctor
Florence Nightingale
Statistician
John B. Watson
Psychologist
Lillian Wald
Nurse
Louis Pasteur
Chemist
Queen Victoria
Former Queen regnant
Virginia Henderson
Nurse