Best Nurses Poems
Harrowing shifts placating Palestinian patients
Awkwardly healing bones, injuries war caused
Comfort we gave seemed severely insufficient
Soul mates meeting among pain, implausible
Crutch hobbling boy with copious haphazard grin
Caught both our hearts, we smuggled him chocolate
You took every free chance to sit and joke with him
Your easy demeanor is medicine, patients responded
Images of rubble sifting shadow-faced citizens
Inescapable magnitude replayed, dream tethered
Impact we made upon fractured limbs and spirits
Told us each smile gained was worthy endeavour
I've speculated our distance pronounced our parallels
A far, foreign land artificially grew our new love found
Strongest logic shows me your benevolence plentiful
Desire stunned us, despite draped shapeless gowns
A year improvising in Gaza's limping hospice system
Threatened to take my buoyancy amongst its tragedy
Compassion you dealt exposed a myriad of wisdom
Guardians of burden bandaged turmoil's inched recovery
Excitement of moving in together, calm logic forgotten
Several short weeks after Gaza, shared goals discussed
A jubilant wedding, white gown without tie backed cotton
Box pile totems, future unpacked together, a time for us
17th August 2020
JCB Burl, Sponsor
Contest, 'A Time For Us'
the lights are on but nobody is home,
the confused elderly mumble and roam,
at the nursing desk they stand,
their minds in another land,
no shoes, no clothes, the hair could use a comb.
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May 4, 2015
Poetry/Limerick/we nurses have a saying
Copyright Protected, 04-669-187-04
All Rights Reserved, 2015, Constance La France
"The lights are on but nobody is home" is a common idiom
used to describe a person mentally vacant or lacking awareness.
Written for the Standard contest, Dumb and Dumber, Personal Quotes,
Sponsor, John Freeman, Judged 2015
Second Place
Life itself sometimes begins at the "End"? Life always has a beginning,and I am not certain about how "Life itself" will "End".Will you hold on to your "Life" that you have now to invigorate,and inspire the desire that the love gives so that you can live again,regardless of the condition that we sometimes find ourselves in. You may be in a"Wheel Chair",and think that no one cares,but please put yourself at ease,and be completely aware that you still have "Life there in that "Wheel Chair"! Caregivers give care even if we may be in a wheel chair! Our caregivers really do "Care",for those who are "Bed Ridden",or those who are in a "Wheel Chair"! They know where you are,and they realize why they are "THERE"! They realize that they truly love and give "Loving""Care"!!! We all can look around,and see "LIFE" everywhere! We can look inside of ourselves,and find life "THERE",and in the "Caregivers" that give us "Care"!"Care giving can start inside where "GOD" resides and can defeat the enemy that tries to take our "Lives"! Caregivers are "Blessed" to be everywhere,and "Caregivers" support "Dare to Care"! We dare you to care,and we swear,as "Caregivers that we will"Forbear"the "Hard Work" of giving,kindness,compassion,patience,and tender love to some who do not care:but as a "Caregiver" we "Care"". You may not see us ,but we are everywhere! God puts "Caregivers" here to "Care"! Did you see that "Caregiver watching "Over" "There"? "Let us "Love";Do not be afraid of "Loving too,too,much: Love is "The Fulfilling" of "The Law"!
Unquotable quotes: Nurses – XIX
A nurse well-dressed is a nurse well-thought of, even if she administers the coup de grace.
Prick a nurse and she’ll pamper you; pamper a nurse and she’ll prick you.
Displease a nurse and no doctor can save you.
Report a nurse’s malfeasance and you’ll find yourself on a stretcher at the morgue’s entrance. (This is from personal experience.)
A nurse a night can make a patient feel much better over-night –
since the bed is paid for already for the price.
Always address a nurse as “doctor”; she’ll not think you need a doctor.
Always make it a policy of hoarding the presents you receive on your hospital bed; the nurse will almost certainly help you lighten the load.
To relieve the back psychological itch, always ask the nurse to scratch your back facing you.
When the nurse is absent from the ward, so is the ward doctor.
Always ask the nurse how she spells her first and last names while pretending to write on a pad; you’re bound to raise her hopes about the contents of your last will and testament.
Always remove the ring on your third finger whenever a nurse enters your room.
In the presence of the nurse, always remark aloud how the nurse’s uniform fits her Brigitte Bardot form.
Never fail to attribute the low humming and buzzing sounds emanating from nurses around hospital beds to Maria Callas.
Whenever a nurse approaches your bed, just whistle: “Jeepers, Creepers, Where d’ya get those eyes?”
Must the percentage of patients dying in hospitals always stay the same when nurses go on strike?
Marry a nurse and become an eternal patient.
A nurse in need calls a Hemingway to arms.
A nurse in bed raises the Dead.
Nurse a nurse and you’ll always be fed…..up!
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016
"What day is it?" the matron asked
"Valentines" came the reply
A twelve hour shift, while on your feet
Sure makes the time fly by
Quite unaware of treasured days
So taken by her duties
The soul inside her laboured body
Is a living, breathing beauty
Lain, row on row, for theatre
I listen to their stories
A bid to put the ill, at ease
Their spoken, homespun glories
Among the walking wounded
A Soul could soon get lost
Whilst, for themselves they seldom care
And rarely count the cost
It doesn't take an Einstein
Nor years at University
To show such sweet compassion
In the face of such adversity
"The day is nearly over"
The 'tune' that gets them by
As each gruelling day repeats itself
In a Nurses Lullaby
Twelve Hour Shifts for Nurses
By Elton Camp
To be asked to work twelve hours in a row
Seems to be an extremely hard way to go
Imagine doing any task for that long
How easy it’d be to do something wrong
If selling clothes I work long and late
A few errors we might then tolerate
After all, a striped tie with a plaid suit
Some folks might consider sorta cute
When, for twelve hours, a nurse strives
It could be a threat to the patients’ lives
Can she maintain the right frame of mind
And not come to patient needs to be blind
And on the nurse it is just far too hard
Shifts that long, I think, should be barred
Two nurses and a doctor try to coax me into a wheelchair.
I sit firmly, hard, arms crossed, not doing it no matter what.
A nurse's aide comes in. She says "Therapy dog is down at X-ray today."
I jump into that wheelchair like the bed was on fire, and away we go.
No dog in sight, but a very savvy nurse's aide.
I see them heading off to work
With RN on their chests
And wonder if their day will bring
Some cardiac arrests…
Or IV drips or stats to check
Or tender reassurance,
All a part of patient care,
A test of one’s endurance.
Whatever comes a nurse’s way,
She’s always instrumental
In helping those who suffer,
If her manner’s calm and gentle.
And mornings, by the hospital,
Before their days unfold,
I’m curious if they might dwell
On what their shifts will hold.
Our paths have crossed though no intent,
illness borne is why we're sent.
We look to you profession learned,
seeking help, for health returned.
You give so much, ask not from us,
while in your care we do trust.
Shall be a day, this plan for all,
kingdom come will make it's call.
Until then, what we see are Angels,
Yes we've meet,
they've been caring for me.
I wrote this on behalf of myself and my Wife,
after she completed her first round of kemo treatments.
To pay tribute to the extraordinary Nurses and medical staff,
who provided such wonderful, compassionate care to her.
She roams the halls at night,
Taking care of us.
She is only but a nurse,
But she is an angel,
She is a hero.
She has those kind eyes,
A special touch,
A golden smile,
And she is the keeper of our hearts.
The moon protects her,
The sun welcomes her while hiding her halo,
For those of us who are not privileged,
To know of her superpower.
She is the Goddess of Good Health,
Many call her Hygeia,
But we simply call her nurse.
She heals us,
She cures some,
She loses a few,
And it breaks her heart....
So this is why all nurses roam the Halls.
Nurses are caregivers, patient, and kind:
dispensing hope and boundless compassion.
Professionals and Angels combined:
nurses are caregivers, patient, and kind:
They're the concept of empathy defined:
smiling when smiling seems out of fashion.
Nurses are caregivers, patient, and kind:
dispensing hope and boundless compassion.
The clock on the wall is relentless
It keeps moving forward never ceases
Time's getting short
More love to export
Unaware of time surrounded by nurses
I'm not trying to take away from or add to eithers appeal,
but in the medical community, doctors diagnose but it is the nurses who heal.
Coronavirus tests are hard to come by
Only severe symptoms qualify
Many with no symptoms have it too
Spreading it around to me and you
If everyone is not tested
Cases will continue to rise
And thousands more will be infected
Many will meet their demise
Nurses in NY wearing trash bags for protection
As they try to avoid the infection
With no help from the feds being shown
It seems we are all on our own
Trump said it would soon disappear
"Abra cadabra" he said with a sneer
On the horizon things are looking bleak
As he continues to make America weak
3-26-2020
An understanding heart and
a gentle touch
To those who are sick means
so much
A nurse takes an oath to do just
that and more
To be that light that shines
upon the core
Everyone deserves a kind
hearted soul
To take care of the patient
and family as a whole
To sit and listen with
an open mind
To leave the negative words
of sickness behind
A nurse with a smile brings
hope into the room
To shed light on darkness
and that of gloom
A nurse understands how hard
work is a must in life
Through long days and nights
and tears and strife
When sickness fades and
we see their face at the end
of the day
A nurse can then feel in their
heart that they've paved the way
GOD anoints us to be a
Nurse with a caring heart
If we ever lose that, the job
of Nurse we must depart
Tammy Arrowood 3/26/2017?