I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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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.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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