Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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