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Nurse Quotes by Florence Nightingale
- Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will…
- The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters…
- I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the…
- No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do…
- The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
- Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
- Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do…
- A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
- 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…
- I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
- I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
- I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world…
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