Elizabeth Kenny is an Australian self trained nurse. She never went to the class room to learn nursing yet most of her procedures are still used in today. For instance, physical therapy or physiotherapy was built on the ideas of her muscle recovery. She was given birth to in Warialda, Colony of New South Wales, on September 20, 1880.
Top 10 Elizabeth Kenny quotes
Elizabeth Kenny affectionately called Sister Kenny due to her nursing rank made a lots of quotes during her life time but the top 10 quotes are as follows:
- Being a lion for a day is preferable to being a sheep your entire life.
- In the history of medicine, it hasn’t always been the brilliant scientist or the wise physician who forges ahead to uncover new areas, directions, or concepts.
- Years ago, in Australia, England, and the United States, men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from “the bush” could come up with a treatment that worked where others had failed branded me a quack, a charlatan, and worse.
- O sleep, O lovely sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, I thought gratefully.
- Some brains can be kept open long enough for the truth to not only enter but also to go quickly, without stopping anywhere along the path.
- The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality that has put the United States in the lead in almost every field of science – namely, an eagerness to learn what it is really all about in order that he may avoid being the one left behind if there is something to it.
- He who infuriates you ultimately wins.
- The training of a nurse does not involve panic.
- Because I am aware of the benefits, I do not want medical professionals to debate the worth of my labor. I want them to explain to me the best way to put this new understanding of quickly regaining health and strength in paralyzed persons where it is required.
- I didn’t travel to America to participate in a research study; I came here to teach my technique.
