A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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