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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

“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.”

Want Interest Our Lives Produce Vanity Remedy Filling Filling Up

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.”

Want States Moral Intellect Impossibility Civilisation

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.”

Want Habit Average Observing Mislead Relapse

Author:Florence Nightingale

“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.”

People Want Trying Looks Science Death Conditions Habit Average Appearance Observation Sickness Observing Mislead Register Relapse Sickness And Death

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

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

“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

“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.”

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

“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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Author:Florence Nightingale

“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.”

Want Different Light Care Suffering Air Quiet Disease Administration Inevitable Diets Warmth Symptoms Incidents Nursing Cleanliness Fresh Air Punctuality

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 family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.”

People Thinking Want Made Use Family

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“I use the word nursing for want of a better.”

Want Use 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