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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet 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?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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