Download or read book I May Be Retired But I ll Always Be an ICU Nurse written by Magic Journal Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive retirement gift for the retired to doodle, sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in. Grab this amazing journal gift now!
Download or read book Where Night Is Day written by James Kelly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all together in the big room, then at the bedside, nurse to nurse. Morning rounds. A group of doctors moves slowly through the unit like a harrow through a field. At each room, like a game, a different one rotates into the center. They leave behind a trail of new orders. Wean, extubate, titrate, start this, stop that, scan, film, scope. The steep hill the patient is asked to climb. Can you breathe on your own? Can you wake up? Can you live?"—Where Night Is Day Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU in a teaching hospital in the heart of New Mexico. It takes place over a thirteen-week period, the time of the average rotation of residents through the ICU. It begins in September and ends at Christmas. It is the story of patients and families, suddenly faced with critical illness, who find themselves in the ICU. It describes how they navigate through it and find their way. James Kelly is a sensitive witness to the quiet courage and resourcefulness of ordinary people. Kelly leads the reader into a parallel world: the world of illness. This world, invisible but not hidden, not articulated by but known by the ill, does not readily offer itself to our understanding. In this context, Kelly reflects on the nature of medicine and nursing, on how doctors and nurses see themselves and how they see each other. Drawing on the words of medical historians, doctor-writers, and nursing scholars, Kelly examines the relationship of professional and lay observers to the meaning of illness, empathy, caring, and the silence of suffering. Kelly offers up an intimate portrait of the ICU and its inhabitants.
Download or read book My Journey on Becoming a Nurse written by Verlia M. Brown and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to chronicle my life's journey from birth to achieving my goal to be a registered nurse. People, in general, take different pathways to fulfill their professional dreams. My pathway took long and winding roads, hills and valleys. My intention is to inspire, motivate and encourage people across the spectrum, that they should pursue their dreams and never give up. In-so-doing, there might be many obstacles and struggles along the way, but with strength and determination, and help from the community of people around you, you goal can be achieved.
Download or read book The Art of the Peeve written by Bruce H. Weik and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Peeve has been in the making for twenty years. For sixteen of those years, they appeared as a column in The Zephyr, a paper located in Galesburg, Illinois. The last four years, they have appeared in the blog site thepeever.com. These are the best of the thousands that were written. The book lists the peeves as they appeared each year over that twenty-year span. In addition, each year starts off with a creative nonfiction story that is primarily memoir, personal, meditative, or lyrical. The peeves cover a lot of territory. They are provocative, stimulating, and full of spiritual, psychological, and political commentary using satire, humor, and often laced with a good bit of baloney. They are designed to encourage discussion and challenge the belief system most of us inherit from our parents. They are not meant to demean any person, although at times the author skirts right on the edge of making fun of a particular person. Sorry, but the whole purpose is to peeve you. A lot of the peeves express feelings about things that many people have a hard time talking about. The author has no such problems. Straightforward, unapologetic, and with no remorse, the peeves drive home the other side of most stories. This is not a book for those favoring the status quo or for the faint of heart.
Download or read book I See You written by Melissa Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! You did it! You graduated nursing school ✓ and passed the NCLEX ✓... you're a real nurse! Until you realize that you're nowhere near ready for this. You can't remember a normal K level, you're not sure which way your stethoscope goes on, and there's no way you can talk to a real patient. Breathe. You can do this. And I'm here for you. I See You is a survival guide for new nurses crafted from my own experience as a graduate nurse working in the intensive care unit. With chapters on talking to doctors, taking report, and caring for dying patients, this book is a tool that you can use to help guide you through those hard days on the unit. With themes of managing work-related stress and anxiety, protecting your mental health, and providing quality patient care, this guide will help you learn how to not only SURVIVE your first year as a new nurse, but to ENJOY it! I was in your shoes and my first year of nursing almost broke me. That's why I want to help you survive your first year as a new nurse with your head held high and minimal melt downs. Let's do this. Here's what you can look forward reading: Precepting Meet Your Team Codes Taking Report Life Outside of Work Talking to Doctors Patients Your Tools Time Management Withdrawal and Death
Download or read book ICU Nurse written by Eve Chenevey and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a critical care nurse, or intensive care unit (ICU) nurse, can be incredibly challenging. ICU nursing jobs require both emotional and physical stamina, and the ability to juggle different variables as they relate to the condition of critically ill patients. Not everyone has the temperament or the discipline for the job, but for those that can manage the hectic pace of the ICU floor, the rewards can be immense. This book is a collection of short stories from a caring and brilliant ICU nurse. Her stories will captivate you, make you laugh, warm your heart, shake your head, and just maybe... will inspire you, too. Step inside to go behind the scenes of a world unlike any other in the healthcare industry.
Download or read book Inside The Critical Care written by Chang Ode and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a critical care nurse, or intensive care unit (ICU) nurse, can be incredibly challenging. ICU nursing jobs require both emotional and physical stamina, and the ability to juggle different variables as they relate to the condition of critically ill patients. Not everyone has the temperament or the discipline for the job, but for those that can manage the hectic pace of the ICU floor, the rewards can be immense. This book is a collection of short stories from a caring and brilliant ICU nurse. Her stories will captivate you, make you laugh, warm your heart, shake your head, and just maybe... will inspire you, too. Step inside to go behind the scenes of a world unlike any other in the healthcare industry.
Download or read book Capsized written by Sharon Sala and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Texas Ranger teams up with a beautiful DEA agent deal to take down a deadly drug lord in this romantic suspense novella by a New York Times bestseller. Out of danger and . . . into his arms Undercover DEA agent Kelly Sloan was tasked with taking down Mexican druglord Dominic Ortega, but when her cover was blown, she barely escaped with her life. After being taken out on his yacht and tortured for information, she literally leapt at the chance to escape overboard, figuring death at sea was better than death at the hands of her vicious captor. But fate had something other than death in mind for her. Texas Ranger Quinn McCord was dealing with problems of his own, so the last thing he needed was a gorgeous, nearly naked woman with a shady past. And before the unconscious beauty on the beach even came to, he knew she was either trouble or in trouble—maybe both—because the men patrolling the shallows with a speedboat and binoculars weren’t tourists out for a day’s fishing. His finely honed instincts told him that she was their quarry, and that he had to protect her and find out what was really going on. If Kelly was shocked to find herself waking up in the arms of a handsome stranger, Quinn was no less surprised to discover that his damsel-in-distress was a very capable agent who’d quite possibly killed the infamous Dominic Ortega before getting away. Unfortunately for them both, Ortega hadn’t died. Instead he’d put a two-million-dollar bounty on her head and sent his army of killers-for-hire in pursuit. Now Kelly and Quinn are both the pursued and the pursuers as they try to stay alive long enough for Kelly to testify against Ortega—and for the two of them to follow up on the once-in-a-lifetime attraction neither one of them wants to fight. Previously Published in On the Edge.
Download or read book Today s Nursing Leader written by Marilyn B. Klainberg and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text is the perfect fit for courses in nursing management and leadership or for nursing capstone courses. It takes traditional topics and frames them within the authors' personal approach - based on years of preparing students for professional nursing practice. This book also discusses the many ways that nurses can become leaders, as well as the many roles they can take.The material has been organized and written especially for today's students and uses real-life vignettes to showcase leadership and humanize nursing leaders. The book covers such specific topics such as IT best practices, leadership theories, legal aspects, and development of strong leadership. The questions at the end of each chapter help focus the student to key points in the book and topics are intended to spark interest and encourage students to pursue leadership roles.
Download or read book Critical Care Nursing written by John M. Clochesy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and authoritative, this resource offers clinical guidance on physiological, social, behavioral, and nursing issues relating to the critically ill client. Organized by body system, the book addresses the needs of elderly, obstetric, oncologic, and post-anesthesia patients, ethical, legal, and educational implications of critical care nursing, and more!
Download or read book Critical Care written by Theresa Brown and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can."—from Critical Care "At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and the singular importance of her profession. Brown, a former English professor at Tufts University, chronicles here her first year as an R.N. in medical oncology. As she does so, Brown illuminates the unique role of nurses in health care, giving us a deeply moving portrait of the day-to-day work nurses do: caring for the person who is ill, not just the illness itself. Critical Care takes us with Brown as she struggles to tend to her patients' needs, both physical (the rigors of chemotherapy) and emotional (their late-night fears). Along the way, we see the work nurses do to fight for their patients' dignity, in spite of punishing treatments and an often uncaring hospital bureaucracy. We also see how a twelve-hour day of caring for the seriously ill gives Brown herself a deeper appreciation of what it means to be alive. Ultimately, this is a book about embracing life, whether in times of sickness or health. As she takes us into the place where patients and nurses meet, Brown shows us the power of human connection in the face of mortality. She does so with a keen sense of humor and remarkable powers of observation, making Critical Care a powerful contribution to the literature of medicine.
Download or read book Critical Care Nurse written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex Death and Other Inspiring Stories written by Rose Rouse and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Rouse, a journalist, and Suzanne Noble, a serial entrepreneur– created Advantages of Age out of a conversation in a hot tub in 2016. ‘We didn’t like how we were being depicted in the media as we got older.’ Advantages of Age is a social enterprise designed to passionately challenge the prevailing negative stereotypes around ageing. No, we’re not all grandparents, some of us are over 50, single and childless. We don’t wish to be defined by the reductive headlines we see around us. We are writers, filmmakers, singers, press officers, death doulas, psychotherapists and so much more. We are not all retired. We surf, play tennis, lift weights. We have sex, we don’t have sex. We have partners, we don’t have partners. We’re an eclectic bunch. In this collection of essays gathered from seven years of commissioning, AoAers share their thoughts on life, love, sex, death, adventures on their terms, lockdown and everything in between. ‘We hope we’re doing our bit to re-define and re-frame what getting old means.’
Download or read book Where Night Is Day written by James Kelly and published by ILR Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all together in the big room, then at the bedside, nurse to nurse. Morning rounds. A group of doctors moves slowly through the unit like a harrow through a field. At each room, like a game, a different one rotates into the center. They leave behind a trail of new orders. Wean, extubate, titrate, start this, stop that, scan, film, scope. The steep hill the patient is asked to climb. Can you breathe on your own? Can you wake up? Can you live?"-from Where Night Is Day Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU in a teaching hospital in the heart of New Mexico. It takes place over a thirteen-week period, the time of the average rotation of residents through the ICU. It begins in September and ends at Christmas. It is the story of patients and families, suddenly faced with critical illness, who find themselves in the ICU. It describes how they navigate through it and find their way. James Kelly is a sensitive witness to the quiet courage and resourcefulness of ordinary people. Kelly leads the reader into a parallel world: the world of illness. This world, invisible but not hidden, not articulated by but known by the ill, does not readily offer itself to our understanding. In this context, Kelly reflects on the nature of medicine and nursing, on how doctors and nurses see themselves and how they see each other. Drawing on the words of medical historians, doctor-writers, and nursing scholars, as well as the works of James Agee and Michel de Certeau, Kelly examines the relationship of professional and lay observers to the meaning of illness, empathy, caring, and the silence of suffering. As Kelly reflects on the rise of medicine, the theory of nursing, the argument of care versus cure, he offers up an intimate portrait of the ICU and its inhabitants.
Download or read book Tarnished Silver written by Myra H. Wolfson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarnished Silver By: Myra H. Wolfson The Silver family seems like a nice, normal, well-to-do American family on the outside, but within the walls of their beautiful house there are many dark secrets. When Lorraine first met her husband Ian, she considered him the perfect life partner, but as the years go by, the marriage begins to fall apart, and Ian becomes more distant and at times even aggressive. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lorraine fantasizes about the rugged and well-built Tommy Monahan, whom she meets while on vacation in Montauk. She believes her hoped-for affair will never come to fruition until suddenly Ian has a fatal heart attack one night, leaving Lorraine finally free to find true love.
Download or read book Tales from the Bedside written by Stephanie Klipple and published by . This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales From The Bedside is a collection of stories from a caring and brilliant ICU nurse. Her stories will captivate you, make you laugh, warm your heart, shake your head, and just maybe... will inspire you, too. Step inside to go behind the scenes of a world unlike any other in the healthcare industry.* Download your Free Kindle App, now. Read Kindle books on any device (smartphone, tablet, pc).
Download or read book Navigating the ICU written by Alex Gottsch and published by LWW. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a straightforward, readable, and highly informative style, Navigating the ICU: A Guide for Patients and Families is a compact, affordable guide to today's Intensive Care Unit. This unique, patient-focused handbook helps patients and their families navigate the complexities of the ICU--from the role of each member of staff, to common procedures, medications, and laboratory tests, to what to expect after the hospital stay. Author Alex Gottsch, an ICU nurse, clearly explains essential topics, introduces helpful resources, provides answers to common questions, and highlights important considerations for during and after ICU care. Provides a single, accessible resource for all patients and families in the high-stress setting of the ICU, where life-changing decisions often need to be made rapidly in an unfamiliar and intimidating environment Improves communication between patients, families, and the healthcare team by defining medical terminology, explaining how the ICU works, prompting the right questions to ask, and showing the best ways to accomplish the patient's goals. Guides you through the ins and outs of the ICU experience with an intuitive, easy-to-use table of contents and a commonsense glossary to help readers feel more confident and knowledgeable. Answers questions you may not have known you had, such as "What is the most important part of the day for me to be present?" and "What Medical Care Would I Want If I Could Not Choose? Explains what to expect after the ICU, where recovery takes place, and the resources available to help the patient and family maximally recover Includes an interactive workbook so this guide can immediately help the patient and family Includes a Foreword by Patricia M. Davidson, Dean Emerita of The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.
