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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.

Florence Nightingale

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
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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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
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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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice
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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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
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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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
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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Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
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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Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small

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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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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