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.
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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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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