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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Breathe Drink Power Prayer
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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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Better Content Reach World
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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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
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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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero

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