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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

Florence Nightingale

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Important Lesson Observation Practice
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Remember Scream Yourself
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Hard Work Job Start Success

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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