“Nurses can (really) take the pressure” is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying means that nurses can take the pressure of their job—and they can also take a person’s blood pressure.
   
“Nurses Can Really Take the Pressure” was printed in Newsday (Long Island, NY) on September 18, 1986. “Nurses can take the pressure” was printed in the book The Soul of the Caring Nurse: Stories and Resources for Revitalizing Professional Passion (2004) by Linda Gambee Henry and James Douglas Henry.
   
   
18 September 1986, Newsday (Long Island, NY), “Clinic to Honor Memory of Caring Nurse” by Edna Negron, pg. 27, col. 1:
She wasn’t afraid of poor neighborhoods, and if she feared anything, she was fearful that the arthritis in her hands would not allow her to live up to the motto above the cabinet in the room that was her office: “Nurses Can Really Take the Pressure.”
     
29 April 1990, El Paso (TX) Times, John Laird column, pg. 1B, col. 1:
Bumper wit
Seen on cars parked at last week’s Humor and Creativity Conference in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.:
   
.  Nurses can really take the pressure.
 
26 July 1992, The Olympian (Olympia, WA), “Consumers” by Vanessa Williams Snyder (Gannett News Service), pg. D8, col. 2:
FOR NURSES: Nurses Station catalog caters to the nurse in your life from its “Nurses Can Really Take The Pressure,” tote bag ($12.50) ...
 
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Pg. 89:
NURSES CAN REALLY TAKE THE PRESSURE
 
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The Soul of the Caring Nurse:
Stories and Resources for Revitalizing Professional Passion
By Linda Gambee Henry and James Douglas Henry
Washington, DC: Nursesbooks.org
2004
Pg. 118:
Just a few of the nurse sayings are:
 
Nurses call the shots;
RN means real nice;
Nurses are IV leaguers;
Nurses can take the pressure.
     
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Quotations about Nurses
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5/18/09
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Nurses can take the pressure.  ~Author Unknown
   
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April Smith
@aprilsmithmusic
Wow. Just read a bumper sticker that said “Nurses can really take the pressure”. Ha!
8:33 PM · Oct 22, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
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Breaking Burnout for Nurses:
365 Quotes & Thoughts to Rejuvenate, Inspire and Empower Nurses
By Bonnie Kitahata
Hybrid Global Publishing
2017
Pg. ?:
236. Nurses can take the pressure.
     
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April Sarol
@myprincessapril
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