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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 application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
