Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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 stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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