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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Only nurses are more likely than physicians to be exposed to patients' blood or body fluids in hospitals.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Nurses are at the forefront in working with physicians and other health care disciplines to provide excellent care for patients in health care settings and in the community both in the United States and around the world.
Nurses and other healthcare providers recently lobbied for and won federal needlestick legislation.
Staff nurses who are excellent caregivers and consistently serve as peer mentors are promoted to the level of Senior Clinical Nurse.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Nurses in remote and rural areas undertake a comprehensive range of procedures for which they do not have the appropriate legislated qualification or training.
All are registered nurses who attend local and national conferences as well as continue to receive advanced training through our own continuing education programs.
Nurses are experiencing widespread job dissatisfaction as indicated by a major new study from the University of Pennsyvania which found that one in three US nurses under the age of 30 is planning to leave his or her job in the coming year.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Today, nurses are challenged to rediscover their essence and to emerge as true healers.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Nurses supplemented their home visits by contacting diabetic patients on televideo monitors with video screens and cameras.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Nurses can travel outside the bounds of informatics nursing and study clinical or health care informatics.
Nurses are often the last ones to explain what they do and how their practice and research innovations address the major health challenges of the time, she says.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Army nurses were assigned to the 44th Medical Brigade in Vietnam.
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