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 should-have sick
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.
inspirational sick rooms
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
coffee sick tea
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.
sick important importance
For the sick it is important to have the best.
sick abuse care
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
nursing sick skins
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
nursing sick nurse
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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.
god measure purpose study thoughts understand
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose
may world birth
Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.
children flower fall
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
passion atmosphere would-be
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.