Quotessence
Home / Books / Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Book by Florence Nightingale · 19 quotes · Nursing, Littles, Disease

Filter quotes by topic

AllNursingLittlesDiseaseLightNurseObservationPatientScienceSickAirBodyEffectsKnowsMindWantAffectedAverageCareColorCraving

Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not Quotes

“Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.”

PeopleWantTryingLooksScienceDeathConditionsHabitAverageAppearanceObservationSicknessObservingMisleadRegisterRelapseSickness And Death
Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Create image

“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.”

PeopleKnowsWayMindMeanLittlesBodyLightFormScienceAirEffectsObjectsColorHealthPatientRecoveryVarietyAffected
Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Create image

“All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.”

YearsSometimesSufferingCoursesProcessEffortTakenWeekMonthsPeriodsDiseaseDecayRemedyNursingUnnoticedPoisoning
Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Create image

“The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.”

WantDifferentLightCareSufferingAirQuietDiseaseAdministrationInevitableDietsWarmthSymptomsIncidentsNursingCleanlinessFresh AirPunctuality
Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Create image

“Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.”

YearsMindHumansWellsTwoBodyLawThousandUnderstoodYears AgoExtraordinaryObservationHeavenlyHuman MindThousand YearsNursingHeavenly Bodies
Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Create image

“When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.”

KnowsFeelsLittlesScienceNaturalSickUniversalPatientCoffeeCupsTeaSubstitutesCravingCups Of Tea
Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Create image