Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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