To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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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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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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 have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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