For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses,… — 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
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — 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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love,… — 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
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
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
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
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
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives. — 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 account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards,… — 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
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
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
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small... — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — 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 surgery proper… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
