Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small... — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“The most important pratical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe-how to observe-what symptoms indicate… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering:… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
