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Florence Nightingale Quotes

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 of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick Picture Quote #1

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe Picture Quote #1

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back Picture Quote #1

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch Picture Quote #1

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 made at a sick bed Picture Quote #1

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature Picture Quote #1

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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last Picture Quote #1

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better Picture Quote #1

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 nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed Picture Quote #1

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm Picture Quote #1

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect Picture Quote #1

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 narrower Picture Quote #1

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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions Picture Quote #1

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind Picture Quote #1

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 difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done! Picture Quote #1

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well Picture Quote #1

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel Picture Quote #1

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior Picture Quote #1

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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want Picture Quote #1

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery Picture Quote #1

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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 of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick (Florence Nightingale Quotes) The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch (Florence Nightingale Quotes) 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 made at a sick bed (Florence Nightingale Quotes) A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better (Florence Nightingale Quotes) 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 nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed (Florence Nightingale Quotes) The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect (Florence Nightingale Quotes) 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 narrower (Florence Nightingale Quotes) The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind (Florence Nightingale Quotes) 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 difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done! (Florence Nightingale Quotes) Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well (Florence Nightingale Quotes) She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel (Florence Nightingale Quotes) What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior (Florence Nightingale Quotes) It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want (Florence Nightingale Quotes) People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery (Florence Nightingale Quotes)

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