Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
nursing sick nurse
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
character self law
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.
nursing nurse important
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
nursing years nurse
Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
nursing nurse sick
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 ...
nursing sick disease
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.
nursing nurse patient
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
struggle wrestling fighting
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
art nursing progressive
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
nursing science thinking
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
hatred patriotism bitterness
Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.
inspirational life women
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
art hard-work nursing
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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
inspirational motivational positive
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.