“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
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
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. — 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
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 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
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
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. — 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
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
