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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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 are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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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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