Florence Nightingale
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English social reformer and statistician (1820 to 1910), the founder of modern nursing; she managed and trained nurses caring for wounded soldiers in the…
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse (opens korrents.com)
“Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse.”
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When a patient is cold, feverish, faint, sick after food or has a bedsore, it is generally the fault of the nursing, not the disease (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Nursing should mean the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and diet, not just giving medicines (opens korrents.com)
“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,…”
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Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse (opens korrents.com)