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“The hospital will never be healthy for patients if it's not a healthy environment for nurses, where their voices are heard and where they can care for their patients and use the full extent of their knowledge, abilities, and skills. After all, hospitals today have become one big intensive care unit: all patients need intensive caring.”
― Tilda Shalof

“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people鈥檚 opinions and/or expectations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Impatience often makes us patients.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One study concluded that there were 1.7 errors per patient per day in America's ICUs. Of these errors, 29 percent could have caused clinically significant harm or death. Given that the average ICU length of stay is three days, this research suggests that nearly all patients hospitalized in the ICU sustain a potentially life-threatening mistake at some point during their stay.”
― Peter Pronovost, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

“I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of absence. No sound is heard and no pulse is felt.”
― Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

“Throughout my profession I have seen Him at work almost daily bringing courage to a patient facing a major procedure, replacing their fear with peace upon entering the operating room; smoothing the way during difficult surgery; encouraging His children with a sense of His presence or providing comfort for anxious parents.”
― Dave A. Walker, God in the ICU