Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.34
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.