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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
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 a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
