Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAverages seduce us away from minute observation.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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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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