If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint,…

Florence Nightingale
74 citations
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 (1860). Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not, p.2
Politics
26

More Author Quotes

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion. ✨ Florence Nighting … ▶
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surge … ▶
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. ✨ Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale, Nation … ▶
Heaven is neither a place nor a time. ✨ Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, p. … ▶
Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit … ▶

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

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes