There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENo 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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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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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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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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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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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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 human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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