There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEOur first journey is to find that special place for us.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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