Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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.
Interpretation
True heroes are those who diligently fulfill their responsibilities in everyday life despite chaos around them.
This quote by Florence Nightingale emphasizes the importance of everyday acts of duty and responsibility, portraying them as heroic in nature. While the world may seem chaotic and tumultuous, it is the unwavering commitment to one's daily obligations that truly exemplifies bravery and heroism.
In practice
This quote could be used during a motivational speech to inspire community service.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.
If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. Thatβs the true practice of peace.
I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.
I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
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