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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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