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By Florence Nightingale
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
- Source
- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1860 · Chapter III (Petty Management)
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- Harrison, London (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #17366)
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From Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (London: Harrison, 1860), Chapter III (Petty Management). From her chapter on petty management, in a passage about why a nurse should not keep a patient waiting, anxious or uncertain.