Catherine Turner, R.N., Ph.D.

Professor of Nursing
Chair, Department of Nursing

Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, TX 76059
phone: (817) 202-6514
fax:       (817) 556-4713
e-mail:   turnerc@swau.edu


The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.  Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around. ...  Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
Larry Dossey

Cathy and Larry, 2006

Cathy and Larry


  
Lo! in that hour of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Santa Filomena, 1857
To be a good nurse one must be a good woman, or one is truly nothing but a tinkling bell     Florence Nightingale
 
 
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The Nightingale Pledge

I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.
Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 1893
rearranging
ANGEL OF THE RECLINING
becomes
Florence Nightingale

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Florence Nightingale

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