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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

Florence Nightingale

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

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