Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEChrist, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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 only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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