49. "Let whoever is in charge keep this
simple question in her head - (not,
how can I always do this right thing
myself, but) how can I provide for the
right thing to be always done?“
~Florence Nightingale,1859
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51. "Nursing encompasses an art,
a humanistic orientation, a feeling for
the value of the individual, and an
intuitive sense of ethics, and of the
appropriateness of action taken."
~Myrtle Aydelotte, 1992
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53. "Unless we are making progress
in our nursing every year, every
month, every week, take my
word for it we are going back."
~Florence Nightingale, 1914
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55. Nursing is an ART
and if it is to be made an art,
It requires an exclusive devotion
as hard a preparation,
as any painter's or sculptor's work;
for what is the having to do with
dead canvas or dead marble,
compared with having to do
with the living body,
the temple of God's spirit?
It is one of the Fine Arts:
I had almost said,
the finest of Fine Arts.
(Florence Nightingale)
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