Tag: Florence Nightingale
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale
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Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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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.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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