There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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