Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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