Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMarriage 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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