Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Richard Branson
The nursing profession is known for awarding badges of honor to RNs who do it themselves and go it alone. “Wow, you moved that 200 lb. patient all by yourself. I’m impressed!”
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Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Don Shula
When I mentor a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant who is dancing around the task at hand, I cite one of my favorite quotes: The start is what stops most people.
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Beverly Sills
Whether we’re lifting weights in the gym or launching our legal nurse consulting business, it’s natural to desire immediate results from the efforts. Beverly Sills told it like it is however, when she proclaimed “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Unknown
Perfectionism is not only rewarded in your RN job, it’s expected. For healthcare administrators “good enough” isn’t good enough. Mistakes can be the difference between life and death. I’m sure even small mistakes don’t win any points with your nursing supervisor either. But do our toilets have to be so immaculate and the conversation with the attorney so manicured?
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: F.L. Emerson
Emerson’s quote, “I’m a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” is a favorite of mine because it is a truth all successful people grasp.
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We’re all creators and there’s a thrill that comes from the simple act of creating. If you find your spark is absent or fleeting, a quick resolution is to create something new. Create anything – a new recipe, or better yet, a new path for your nursing career or new growth for your legal nurse consulting business.
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Robert Goolrick
Robert Goolrick in Heading Out to Wonderful pronounced “All memory is fiction.” Boy do I relate to that daring truth, especially when talking with my twin brother, Vince, who is quite the raconteur.
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Joe Girard
Yesterday I mentored a successful Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Gloria, who is gearing up to retire. She doesn’t want to discontinue her business, she just wants her CLNC® subcontractors to do all the work.
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Hippocrates
When it comes to our health, I believe we are what we eat. Now before you get too caught up in this philosophy and start going all vegan or paleo on me, let me explain. Wouldn’t you agree that, with some exceptions, health is directly related to diet and all the medicine in the world can’t and won’t heal a bad diet?
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Albert Einstein
Everybody today wants to be the expert and, being the expert myself in the legal nurse consulting industry, I get it. The quintessential expert, Einstein understood that being smart was just one part of the expert equation. It was his relentless research that qualified him as the expert he was. Genius begins, quite properly with research.
