Inspirational Quotes/Poems
TEACHING IS CARING
It was a rainy, dark evening
My grandmother’s image reflected off the window
I could not bear to turn around
So I watched, silently
My mother said “God is with you”
Eyes closed, wrinkles disappeared
Gone.
Tears ran down my face
Rainy, dark evening
Empty inside
Angel in white
Soothing voice, comforting arms
Nurse
What will I be when I grow up?
Images of the past speak to me
Comfort, understanding
Nurse
Caring for patients
Empathy, nighttime backrubs, listening ear
Discharge instructions
Teacher
Knowledge shared
Soothing voice, comforting, understanding, listening, empathy
Caring
BY HELENA V. COLEMAN
To Let Go Takes Love
To let go does not mean to stop caring
It means I can’t do it for someone else
To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands
To let go is not to care for, but to care ABOUT.
To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be him or herself
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes but to allow others to determine their own destinies.
To let go is not to be less protective, it is to permit another to face reality.
- Author Unknown
To let go takes love, the caring instructor’s job is to guide and encourage their students, not to overpower them. When we let our nursing students leave they will leave as confident, caring nurses, and this is because you were able to enact the art of caring. You can let go freely and know that you did all you could do and allow students to face the world on their own. They will forever remember your caring ways.
“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges on their own.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Kahlil Gibran
“It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.” – Linda Conway