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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

“I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.”

Men Years Remember Death Used Watches Morning Sick Sick Man

Book:Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of 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.”

Should Firsts May Seems Principles Strange Sick Lays Harm Hospitals Nurse Nevertheless Requirements Nursing

Author:Florence Nightingale

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

Should Firsts Sick Harm Hospitals Nurse Requirements Hospitality Nursing Inspirational Nurse Inspirational Nursing

Author:Florence Nightingale

“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.”

May Persons Whole Home Opportunity Poor Share Stage Civilization Sick Population Hospitals Nurse Sick Person

Book:Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.”

Should Humans Light Science Human Beings Rooms Sun Air Effects Health Bed Sick Smell Breathing Rays Shutters

Book:Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children

Source: Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children

“It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.”

Want Needs Light Science Hurt Dark Rooms Results Air Health Direct Sick Patient Sunlight Fresh Air Unqualified Dark Room

Book:Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“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.”

Wells Littles Reality Law Health Elements Understood Sick Nurse Nursing

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

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

“For the sick it is important to have the best.”

Important Science Sick Importance

Author:Florence Nightingale

“The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.”

Light Desire Return Sick Craving Nursing Inspirational Nurse

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

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

“The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.”

Has Beens Made Amount Comfort Bed Skins Sick Observation Relief Nursing Inspirational Nurse Inspirational Nursing

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.”

Want Should Firsts Suffering Calling Should Have Sick Patient Consideration Nurse Nursing Housemaids

Author:Florence Nightingale

“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.”

Ifs Cold Bed Disease Sick Faults Patient Nursing

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

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

“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.”

Knows Feels Littles Science Natural Sick Universal Patient Coffee Cups Tea Substitutes Craving Cups Of Tea

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

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

“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.”

Wells Care Sick Abuse Noise Unnecessary

Author:Florence Nightingale

“In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.”

Inspirational Should Rooms Bed Sick Shutters

Book:Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes