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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
― Florence Nightingale
Sick
Abuse
Care
Florence Nightingale
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
Nursing
Joy
Leader
Florence Nightingale
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.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Sick
Bed
Florence Nightingale
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.
― Florence Nightingale
Home
Opportunity
Civilization
Florence Nightingale
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
― Florence Nightingale
Nurse
Worthy
Deserve
Florence Nightingale
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
Health
Recovery
Mean
Florence Nightingale
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Nurse
Sick
Florence Nightingale
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
― Florence Nightingale
Might
Christ
Complainers
Florence Nightingale
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
― Florence Nightingale
God
Religious
Character
Florence Nightingale
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
― Florence Nightingale
Affection
Florence Nightingale
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.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Sacrifice
Peculiar
Florence Nightingale
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