For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

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.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.