I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
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. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
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. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
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. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
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. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. Florence Nightingale Read Quote
