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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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.
