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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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