How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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 am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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 is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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