Florence Nightingale
English social reformer and statistician (1820 to 1910), the founder of modern nursing; she managed and trained nurses caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War.
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Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse
Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse.
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Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse
Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
When a patient is cold, feverish, faint, sick after food or has a bedsore, it is generally the fault of the nursing, not the 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.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
Nursing should mean the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and diet, not just giving medicines
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.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
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The first rule of nursing is to keep the air a patient breathes as pure as the outside air without chilling him
The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last thing upon which a nurse's attention must be fixed, the first essential to a patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing, with which I had almost said you may leave all the rest alone, is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting and fear of surprise harm a patient more than any exertion
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
Unnecessary noise is the cruellest absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well
Unnecessary noise, then, is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted either on sick or well.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
The most important practical lesson for nurses is what to observe and how to observe it in the sick
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.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
A woman should bring the best she has to the world's work, heeding neither of the two current cries about what women should do
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.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) Said c. 1859–1860
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