A Couple of Interesting Facts, Quotes (and Even a Few Jokes) About Nursing.
- The most visits to emergency rooms occur during the warmer months of the year
- The National Association of School Nurses recommends nurse-to-student ratios should be one to 750 for general populations, one to 250 in mainstreamed populations and 1 to 125 in severely handicapped populations
- Men and women between the ages of 25 and 44 account for 33 percent of all people in the U. S. who come to emergency rooms with injury-related wounds
- “When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” Terence, from The Woman of Andros (166 B.C.)
- One out of every five licensed practical nurses works part time
- One out of every four registered nurses works part time
- The New England Hospital for Women and Children, established in 1862, was the first school for nursing in the U.S.
- You know you are a nurse when you baste your Thanksgiving turkey with a Toomey syringe
- The first nursing school in history dates back to 250 B.C. and was located in India
- An Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) takes about 2 to 3 years
- The average starting wage for a certified registered nurse anesthetist is over $50,000
- Around nine million children visit emergency rooms in the U.S. each year due to injuries
- Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881
- Why did the nurse keep the bedpan in the refrigerator? Because when she kept it in the freezer it took too much skin off
- The fourth week of May is National Nurses Week
- There are more nurses than any other workers in the health profession
- If you see a nurse smiling when things go wrong, she is probably going off duty
- According to the latest data available to the World Health Organization, the United States has a ratio of 972.0 nurses per 100,000 people, or about the same as Germany and Uzbekistan
- Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first African-American nurse in 1879
Source: NursingLink
