For the sick it is important to have the best.

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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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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.

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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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