If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALERemember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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