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
sick abuse care
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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 world way
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
happiness inspirational-life nursing
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
religion doe destruction
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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 medicine way
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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.
jesus prayer real
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
mind wish body
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.
religious men thinking
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
nursing simple done
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?
nursing sacrifice development
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.
sexy passion nursing
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.