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 light sick
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
nursing nurse patient
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
pain nursing looks
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
nursing men doctors
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
nursing tea get-better
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
art nursing nurse
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
health nursing reality
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
god nursing purpose
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
nursing color said
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
nursing opportunity nurse
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
party mean nursing
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
nursing light air
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.
nursing years law
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
nursing air nurse
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.