Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC , who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing, a writer, and a noted statistician.
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“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion”
Florence Nightingale
“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
“There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain”
“I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).”
“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear”
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
“No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman”
“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”
“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”