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It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.
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Let your doubt be to yourself, your decision to them.
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It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.
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Nevertheless the person in charge never seems to look the impossibility in the face.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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.
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Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.