O God, Help me to be a good nurse.
Make me quick and eager in learning
and wise and efficient in action.
Give me patience with people who are irritating
and demanding and annoying.
Give me firmness with people who are foolish and stubborn
and disobedient and uncooperative.
Give me sympathy with people who are nervous
and anxious and frightened.
Help me to be kind when I need to be kind,
and severe when I need to be severe.
Help me always to remember that,
when I share in the work of healing,
I share in the work of Jesus,
who healed all those who had need of healing.
This I ask for your love's sake, Amen
