A Nurse is a cool hand in a fevered world. She's Kindness in the dark of a lonely night. She is a Diplomat with a pill in her hand, a Philosopher holding a hot water bottle, an Ambassador pushing a wheel chair. 

She has learned long ago to cry inside, and never let it show. She's an Optimist with a cheery "Good Morning". She's hope with a friendly "Good Night."

Men fall in love with her, women envy her usefulness, and little girls dream of growing up and being just like her. 

She's a Jill of all trades, dietician, hand-holder, chaplain, neighbor, advisor, secretary, flower arranger, and friend. 

She has the self control of an a saint, the efficiency of a Chief Executive Officer, She is as reliable as the seasons. 

She likes neatly pressed uniforms, patients getting well, healthy babies, new mothers, doctors, well-made beds, the aroma of fresh linen, and just being a nurse. 

The recipe for a nurse is one part gentleness, two parts sympathy, three parts knowledge, with additional dashes of compassion, self-confidence and enthusiasm.

She starts out every day with a heart full of hope and sprinkles it up and down the corridors of her own private world. 

Her kindness makes the world go around, Her warm smile can fill a cold room. She's a princess of hope, a queen of dreams. The world is her ward. 

She can be found everywhere; Holding babies, turning over patients, patting pillows, giving pills, sticking arms, raising beds, measuring serum, holding hands, taking temperatures and just standing someplace being pleasant to somebody. She is a companion to the lonely, a heroine to the troubled.

She is a member of the world's most humane sorority, She's America's most cherished citizen, A woman in white, with God in her hands. She's a NURSE!

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I know this because I am married to a nurse.