Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENo woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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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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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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