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Nursing is the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm. It is a profession within the health care sector which is focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, and/or recover optimal health and quality of life.
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The hospital will never be healthy for patients if it's not a healthy environment for nurses, where their voices are heard and where they can care for their patients and use the full extent of their knowledge, abilities, and skills. After all, hospitals today have become one big intensive care unit: all patients need intensive caring.
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The very first element for having control over others is, of course, to have control over oneself. If I cannot take charge of myself, I cannot take charge of others. The next, perhaps, is—not to try to "seem" anything, but to be what we would seem.
A person in charge must be felt more than she is heard—not heard more than she is felt. She must fulfil her charge without noisy disputes, by the silent power of a consistent life, in which there is no seeming, and no hiding, but plenty of discretion.
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― Florence Nightingale - To Her Nurses
― Florence Nightingale - To Her Nurses
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