Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThat Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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