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 NIGHTINGALEFor the sick it is important to have the best.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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