Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALERemember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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