Quote of the Day, May 12 -- Florence Nightingale said, "The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm." This quote id from Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, 1859.

Florence Nightingale (1820 to 1910) was a British social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Born into a wealthy English family, she defied the conventions of her time to pursue a vocation in healthcare, rising to international prominence during the Crimean War of the 1850s, where she led a team of nurses at a British military hospital in Scutari, present-day Istanbul.

Her meticulous approach to patient care, sanitation and hospital administration dramatically reduced mortality rates am...