Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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