A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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 very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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?
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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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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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