"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'.
This definition would do just as well for a porter.
It might even do for a horse.
It would not do for a policeman." (Florence Nightingale, 1860)
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FONTE: Nightingale, F. - Notes on nursing what it is and is not. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1946. (First published in 1859) http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/syllabi/nur/print/intro.htm