Quotations Flashcards
“To be ‘in charge’ is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that everyone else does so too.”
Florence Nightingale
“all women at some time or another would be called upon to “nurse” family or friends, and though “nurses” themselves may or may not have been formally trained, the act of nursing required educated and meticulous planning by those wishing to provide effective nursing care.”
Florence Nightingale
“light has quite as real and tangible effects upon the human body…Who has not observed the purifying effect of light, and especially of direct sunlight, upon the air of a room?”
Florence Nightingale
“the most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe, how to observe, what symptoms indicate improvement, which are evidence of neglect and what kind of neglect.”
Florence Nightingale
according to her nursing consist of “knowledge, thought, values, philosophy, commitment, and action with some degrees of passion.
Jean Watson
“I make the point to use mind, body, soul or unity within an evolving emergent world view-connectedness of all”
Jean Watson
“The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge; and to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible”
Virginia Henderson
“I believe that the function the nurse performs is primarily an independent one – that of acting for the patient when he lacks knowledge, physical strength, or the will to act for himself as he would ordinarily act in health, or in carrying out prescribed therapy. This function is seen as complex
and creative, as offering unlimited opportunity for the application of the physical, biological, and social sciences and the development of skills based on them.”
Virginia Henderson
“I say that the nurse does for others what they would do for themselves if they had the strength, the will, and the knowledge. But I go on to say that the nurse makes the patient independent of him or her as soon as possible.”
Virginia Henderson
“Nurse should have knowledge to practice individualized and human care and should be a scientific problem solver.”
Virginia Henderson
“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant and the knowledge and confidence for the young mother…“Henderson stated that “Thorndike’s fundamental needs of man”
Virginia Henderson
“the nurse does for others what they would do for themselves if they had the strength, the will, and the knowledge. But I go on to say that the nurse makes the patient independent
of him or her as soon as possible.”
Virginia Henderson
“The mind and body being separable, a person must maintain physiological and emotional balance. An individual requires assistance in order to achieve health and independence or a peaceful death. Individuals will achieve or maintain health if they have the necessary strength, will or
knowledge. The individual and family should be viewed as a unit.”
Virginia Henderson
“Nursing is practical endeavor, but it is practical endeavor engaged in by person who have specialized theoretic nursing knowledge with developed capabilities to put this knowledge to work in con___ situation of nursing practice”
Dorethea Orem
“The body of knowledge that guides the art and Science incorporates empirical and antecedent knowledge”
Dorethea Orem
