I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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 most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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 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.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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