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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.
― Florence Nightingale
Art
Nursing
Nurse
Florence Nightingale
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
― Florence Nightingale
Art
Nursing
Progressive
Florence Nightingale
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Nurse
Important
Florence Nightingale
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Nurse
Patient
Florence Nightingale
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Years
Nurse
Florence Nightingale
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
― Florence Nightingale
Hero
Nursing
Nurse
Florence Nightingale
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Science
Thinking
Florence Nightingale
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?
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Simple
Done
Florence Nightingale
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Nurse
Sick
Florence Nightingale
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
World
Way
Florence Nightingale
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
― Florence Nightingale
Art
Nursing
Nurse
Florence Nightingale
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Nurse
Expectations
Florence Nightingale
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
― Florence Nightingale
Happiness
InspirationalLife
Nursing
Florence Nightingale
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.
― Florence Nightingale
Health
Nursing
Light
Florence Nightingale
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
― Florence Nightingale
Women
Nursing
Opportunity
Florence Nightingale
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
― Florence Nightingale
God
Nursing
Science
Florence Nightingale
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.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Light
Air
Florence Nightingale
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
― Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Use
Want
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
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