Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Between 1872 and 1900 Miss Nightingale used, when she was able, to send an annual letter or address to the probationer-nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas’ Hospital, “and the nurses who have been trained there.”[1] These addresses were usually read aloud by Sir Harr...
It is good to love our Training School and our body, and to wish to keep up its credit. We are bound to do so. That is helping God’s work in the world. We are bound to try to be...
3. Part 3There may be some amongst us who, like St. Paul, are capable of feeling a natural interest in the spiritual welfare of our fellow-probationers--or, if you like the expression be...
4. Part 4Trustworthy, in keeping our soul in our hands, never excited, but always ready to lift it up to God; unstained by the smallest flirtation, innocent of the smallest offence, even...
6. Part 6We can, every one of us here present, though our teaching may not be much, by our _lives_ “preach a continual sermon, that all who see may understand.” (These words were found i...
2. Part 2I have been in positions of authority myself and have always tried to remember that to use such an advantage inconsiderately is--cowardly. To be sharp upon them is worse in me t...
5. Part 5Now justice is the perfect order by which every woman does her own business, and injustice is where every woman is doing another’s business. This is the most obvious of all thin...
1. Part 1Between 1872 and 1900 Miss Nightingale used, when she was able, to send an annual letter or address to the probationer-nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas’ Hospital,...
8. Part 8I must have moral influence over my Patients. And I _can_ only have this by _being_ what I appear, especially now that everybody is educated, so that Patients become my keen cri...