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Florence Nightingale, a British nurse and statistician, is hailed as the founder of modern nursing. She was born on May 12, 1820, and died on August 13, 1910. Nightingale gained fame for her nursing work during the Crimean War, where she improved the conditions of military hospitals.

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Famous Florence Nightingale Quotes

“Our first journey is to find that special place for us.”

Firsts Vision Destiny Journey Special Special Places

Author:Florence Nightingale

“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.”

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“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

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“The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.”

Firsts Has Beens Known Cases Disease Patient Refuse Tea Get Better Craving Nursing Typhus

Book:Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

“Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.”

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“The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.”

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“Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”

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Author:Florence Nightingale