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 nurse patient
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
art nursing nurse
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
nursing opportunity nurse
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
nursing air nurse
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
nurse useless may
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
hero nursing nurse
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.
nursing expectations nurse
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
fear nursing nurse
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
nurse worthy deserve
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
nursing sick nurse
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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 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.