black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Florence Nightingale

I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Time Way World
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Important Lesson Observation Practice
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beautiful Effect Healing
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Patient Refusal Tea
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Content Reach World
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Call Family God Himself Important Religion
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

People Scheme Word
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Florence Nightingale Quotes