Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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.
Interpretation
Intervening in a patient's rest can significantly disrupt their recovery.
Florence Nightingale emphasizes the importance of preserving a patient's sleep and rest in order to enhance their healing process. The quote reflects the delicate balance of healthcare practices, suggesting that unnecessary interventions can exacerbate a patient's condition and lead to negative outcomes during recovery.
In practice
During a health seminar discussing patient management, quoting Nightingale can highlight the significance of sleep.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.
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