To the probationer-nurses of the Nightingale Fund School at St. Thomas's Hospital / Florence Nightingale, New Year's Day, 1886.

  • Florence Nightingale
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[1886]
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Credit: To the probationer-nurses of the Nightingale Fund School at St. Thomas's Hospital / Florence Nightingale, New Year's Day, 1886. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    New Yeae’s Day, 1886. My beae Feieyds, My first New Year’s thoughts are for you all—for dear Matron, Home Sister, Ward Sisters, Nurses, all, Day and Night, all, all. My first prayers are: may the highest blessings be poured upon your New Year. A Happy New Year to you all. And if we really give ourselves to our work in a high and humble spirit, remembering whose “ business ” it is that we are upon, a Happy New Year will be ours. We thank you all, all, for the progress made. But progress is only a step to more progress, or it may well be going backward instead of forward. What is giving ourselves to our work ? It is when duty, intelligence, humanity, religion (or the tie to God), are all embarked with us in our work. How happy are we Nurses that we can always have this, if we please, in oue work. Then we are always on the winning side. These are our helmet and our breast-plate. I can remember a famous Teacher of Medicine once saying to his students : [What he said may be turned
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