4 Florence Nightingale Quotes on Healthcare

Florence Nightingale quotes on healthcare

5. 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.

6. 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.

8. It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

10. Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended at all even to take in the whole sick population.