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Florence Nightingale
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. ✨ Florence Nightingale (1992). Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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