Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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