A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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 most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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