Florence Nightingale Quotes

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

I actually wanted to be a nurse, of all things.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

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.

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.

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

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.

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.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.