Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIn a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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