Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection. - Florence Nightingale 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. - Florence Nightingale 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale 7 Share Now -
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. - Florence Nightingale 8 Share Now -
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. - Florence Nightingale 9 Share Now -
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. - Florence Nightingale 10 Share Now -
