The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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