It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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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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