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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDo not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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