It 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWomen have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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 is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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 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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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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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