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Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere (for they are equally jargons); of the jargon, namely, about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do, including the medical and other professions, merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this is the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women, and should be "recalled to a sense of their duty as women," and because "this is women's work," and "that is men's," and "these are things which women should not do," which is all assertion and nothing more. Surely woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is, to the work of God's world, without attending to either of these cries. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

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. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

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. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

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. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but remove obstructions; neither can cure; nature alone cures. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound. So it is with medicine; the function of an organ becomes obstructed; medicine so far as we know, assists nature to remove the obstruction, but does nothing more. And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Stella Gibbons

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling.
It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized. — Stella Gibbons

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By 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

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

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. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

For the sick it is important to have the best. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital of wounded men. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, the want of an object, a general disgust, or incapacity for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse.

This reminds one of the parish where a stupid old man was set to be schoolmaster because he was "past keeping the pigs. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Frances Murray

You look extremely young," said Miss Nightingale....
"Age isn't really a matter of years, I find," returned Phemie. "I know people twice my age who will never be as old as I am now. — Frances Murray

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

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. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Simon Singh

(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the importance of a whole series of health reforms. for example, many people had argued that training nurses was a waste of time, because patients cared for by trained nurses actually had a higher mortality rate than those treated by untrained staff. Nightingale, however, pointed out that this was only because more serious cases were being sent to those wards with trained nurses. If the intention is to compare the results from two groups, then it is essential to assign patients randomly to the two groups. Sure enough, when Nightingale set up trials in which patients were randomly assigned to trained and untrained nurses, it became clear that the cohort of patients treated by trained nurses fared much better than their counterparts in wards with untrained nurses. — Simon Singh

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Florence Nightingale

Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night. — Florence Nightingale

Best Florence Nightingale Quotes By Margaret Atwood

I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal you know. — Margaret Atwood