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Nursing Quotes by Florence Nightingale
- The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or…
- 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…
- Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
- Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
- Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female,…
- There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
- The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
- The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving…
- The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations…
- 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…
- All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of…
- The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,…
- If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has…
- Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,…
- A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
- We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation…
- May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the…
- Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
- I use the word nursing for want of a better.
- I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
- The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow…
- The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
- So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and…
- The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
- I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than…
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- How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. — Warren Beatty
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