It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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 stand out the war with any man.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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