Florence Nightingale Quotes About Nursing

Quotes about: Nursing

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  I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

• The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.122, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Florence Nightingale

  Motivational, Fear, Women

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, (p. 479), 2007.

• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Women, Nursing, Opportunity

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

• For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Years, Nurse

  "Florence Nightingale to her Nurses".

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Science, Thinking

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

• Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Progressive

• Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Patient

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press

• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sacrifice, Peculiar

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.201, Routledge

• Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Simple, Done

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.32

• The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

• 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

  Nursing, Sick, Bed

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sick, Skins

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.64

• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hero, Nursing, Nurse

• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

• Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, World, Way

• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, Nursing, Sacrifice

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

  Florence Nightingale

  Horse, Nursing, Men

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sexy, Passion, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2005). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Nursing, Science

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