The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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