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
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
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
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection. — 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
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having… — 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
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
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows… — 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
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little… — 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
