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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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.
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.
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, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
