The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI can stand out the war with any man.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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