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 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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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.
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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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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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