No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIf 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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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 specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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