Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence NightingaleRead
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Worrying and waiting can be more harmful than taking action.
In this quote, Florence Nightingale emphasizes the negative impact that feelings of apprehension and uncertainty can have on a person. She suggests that enduring stress related to waiting and fearing the unknown can be psychologically damaging, often more so than any physical effort or exertion one might exert to tackle a challenge. Thus, it's important to address and overcome fears rather than allowing them to linger and potentially cause harm.
Themes
ApprehensionUncertaintyWaitingFearHarmPatience
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech about overcoming anxiety in the workplace.
More from Florence Nightingale
All quotes →For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
Florence NightingaleRead
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
Florence NightingaleRead
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.
Florence NightingaleRead
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
Florence NightingaleRead
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence NightingaleRead
Similar quotes
I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Larry KingRead
If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn’t you know?
RumiRead
I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
J. K. RowlingRead
...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
S. E. HintonRead
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
Gautama BuddhaRead
One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
Friedrich NietzscheRead