Health is more than health
"Health is a state of well-being and using every power of individual possesses to the fullest extent"
/ Florence Nightingale
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and socio well-being, and not merely the absece of diseases and infirmaty "
/ WHO 1948
"An experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness, and may occur in the presence or absent of disease or injury"
/ American Nurses Association, 2004
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"Nature alone cures... And what nurses has to do...is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him"
/ Florence Nightingale
"Nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, allevation of suffering through the diagnose and treatment of human response, and avocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations ".
/ American Nurses Assiciation, 2003
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I just had to share my studies for tomorrows exame in Fundamental of Nursing!
- Nightingale is sure my favourite;)