I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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