I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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