Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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For 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.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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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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