Download or read book My Fifty Year Nursing Journey written by Barbara Ann Burke NA LVN ADN BSN MSN and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sometime amusing, sometime challenging journey through fifty years of Nursing, this author presents her favorite memoirs. Beginning as a young sixteen year-old Nurse Aide in the early 1960's, her long walk through Nursing launches in a small town hospital in the south. She moves you through youthful learning experiences, Nurse trainings, personal struggles with choices, and lessons learned in life. Her progression through young adulthood addresses concerns of leaving her own children to care for patients, and all the usual parenting versus career issues young Mothers deal with. Her sometimes joyful, sometimes stressful Nursing world is described from her early education throughout Nursing positions in many settings. Her return to college as a mature woman to achieve further degrees is certainly respectable. Watching a young and naive girl grow into a successful, confident Nurse, with experience in several arenas will delight and entertain you. Anyone who is interested in the field of Nursing must travel this journey with this Nurse. She is now considering retirement, and is in a quandry. Nursing is her life, and walking away is difficult! You will quickly realize "Just Why On Earth Anyone Would Ever Want To Be A Nurse!"
Download or read book R N written by Elizabeth Moorman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1953 edition.
Download or read book Your First Year As a Nurse Revised Third Edition written by Donna Cardillo, R.N. and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic primer takes nurses inside the hospital, the exam room, and the locker room to help you survive and thrive on the job—now updated for the post-pandemic world. “A must-read guide for new nurses and even those who have been practicing for years.”—Echo Heron, R.N., New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care In this thorough, readable guide, Donna Cardillo, known as “The Inspiration Nurse,” pulls back the curtain on what it’s really like for first-year nurses, with practical tips for navigating the healthcare system as a new member of the workforce in a world that looks vastly different from ever before. Drawing on her thirty-year nursing career and brand-new insights and perspectives from real healthcare workers, Cardillo shows nurses how to use the principles of self-care, assertiveness, and mindfulness to navigate the interpersonal dynamics that are so key to nursing success and preserve their own longevity in the field. New graduates, second-career nurses, and healthcare workers of all kinds will learn to: • find a job that’s a perfect fit • navigate clinical settings with confidence • develop positive relationships with physicians, patients, and co-workers • stay upbeat, deal with conflict and adversity, and avoid burnout With newly updated material on holistic patient care, empowerment, wellness practices, and cultivating resilience, Your First Year as a Nurse is an essential guide for nurses and healthcare workers looking to survive and thrive in today’s health-services landscape.
Download or read book Treasures of a Nurse s Heart written by Lisa Wagner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty stories highlighting Mrs. Smith's nursing career, each with a Life Lesson at the end.
Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Nurse written by Jane Schuman and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What would you say to a woman who is having her fifth abortion?" Nothing I replied to my prospective employer, she already knows the answers. Not sugar coating what a nurse's life is really like, it tells the heart-wrenching stories of former patients. There are laughable moments and misunderstandings from my initial training as a nurse, as well as humorous, unspoken nicknames I assign to some of my colleagues. Through my eyes you wil see the massive changes to the medical field in the last fifty years. You will travel through time as I deal with people and patients and you will come to understand that nursing isn't just about medical procedures but the person as a whole. As the writer of this novel I hope you will be able to see nursing through my eyes.
Download or read book My Nursing Journey Through the NHS written by Shermane W Peters and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I most heartily congratulate Shermane in putting her remarkable story into print so that others can experience the joy of being a midwife which has helped to shape her into the person she is today. And to think that when she took her flight on that hot sunny afternoon on the B.O.A.C plane at Seawell (now known as Grantly Adams international Airport) in the paradise island of Barbados to the UK, I hasten to add that she never would have imagined the trials and temptations, joys and thrills that would track her life in the many years in the UK.The subtitle of this book reads "Then and Now - the Difference" are clearly interwoven into her personal experience as a dedicated midwife, wife, mother and now grandmother.I most heartily congratulate Shermane in putting her remarkable story into print so that others can experience the joy of being a midwife which has helped to shape her into the person she is today. And to think that when she took her flight on that hot sunny afternoon on the B.O.A.C plane at Seawell (now known as Grantly Adams international Airport) in the paradise island of Barbados to the UK, I hasten to add that she never would have imagined the trials and temptations, joys and thrills that would track her life in the many years in the UK.The subtitle of this book reads "Then and Now - the Difference" are clearly interwoven into her personal experience as a dedicated midwife, wife, mother and now grandmother.I most heartily congratulate Shermane in putting her remarkable story into print so that others can experience the joy of being a midwife which has helped to shape her into the person she is today. And to think that when she took her flight on that hot sunny afternoon on the B.O.A.C plane at Seawell (now known as Grantly Adams international Airport) in the paradise island of Barbados. This book also dig deep into the hard work of over fifty years by one of the migrant nurses, just approaching her eighteen birthday, left her homeland and came to the UK "Mother country" to embarked on her nursing journey in the NHS. Her experiences recounted are clearly defined as a testimony of her dedication and commitment to her profession. The level of appreciation by her colleagues is evidently displayed on the photographic pages. Socially, she attended and enjoyed going on trips around Europe, attending the theatre and other national events, horse racing, especially Lady's Day at Ascot. Her family also benefited enormously from her professional development courses out of her nursing practice
Download or read book Give Us to Go Blithely written by Doris Janet Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Fifty Years in Nursing written by Doris R. Schwartz and published by Churchill Livingstone. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army, where she served as head nurse of an amputee ward and on a floating hospital in the Pacific Ocean; to Sweden, where Schwartz visited her rural patients by bicycle; to the Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky, where many patients could only be reached by horseback. Schwartz went on to Cornell University and later to the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent many satisfying years as a nurse educator, researcher, and writer.
Download or read book Journey Through Brain Trauma written by Louise Ray Morningstar and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey Through Brain Trauma is the true story of Louise Morningstar's struggle to help her daughter recover from devastating brain damage. The Morningstars' heroic story will inspire and inform all those who are struggling with rehabilitation from a brain injury.
Download or read book Proud to Wear My South Side Cap written by Ruth A. Bershok and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth (Wagner) Bershok entered South Side School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1958. In this book she traces her nearly 60-year journey through the field of nursing. She begins as a teenaged student nurse starching her cap, learning the rules of etiquette for student nurses, and rotating through clinicals. The journey continues through decades filled with changes in medical technologies and attitudes. She vividly recalls the first time a medical doctor asked for the opinion of the nursing staff. Her journey navigates through many challenging events including an earthquake, a lengthy strike, and a hospital evacuation. Additionally, having served the vast majority of her career as a hospital's night shift supervisor, the author delightfully devotes a chapter to The Unexplained. This book reflects the joys, sorrows, frustrations, compassion, and soul's enrichment inherent to the author's lengthy nursing career.
Download or read book A Uro Oncology Nurse Specialist s Reflection on her Practice Journey written by Beverley Anderson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique insight and background of a uro-oncology nurse’s career from a personal and professional perspective, one that encapsulates the ever changing dynamics in the nursing profession over 40 years - 1970’s to current, 2022. In writing this book, the objective is to devise a beneficial point of reference, one that is conducive to enlightening individuals within the healthcare profession and the wider context, on the art of reflection and acknowledging its benefits in terms of exploring their feelings and understanding their meaning. Reflection is a highly beneficial tool. In this context, the process enables the author to reflect constructively on her nursing career and practice, to highlight the positive as well as the negative aspects within that practice, and illustrate how the experiences gained have contributed to her development, personally and professionally, throughout that journey. Reflection includes deliberate reflection on experience, emotions, actions and responses and acknowledging how essential these have been to informing the author’s existing knowledge base and in ensuring a higher level of learning and understanding. In the continued quest to deliver optimal healthcare, the objective of reflection is in enabling healthcare individuals e.g. nursing students, newly qualified nurses or those considering change of nursing speciality, to better understand their patients from a holistic standpoint (physical, psychological, psycho-social, spiritual, cultural and economic) and ultimately, improving the individual patient’s overall experience – cancer or otherwise, as well as improving and enhancing practice outcomes. The importance of reflection and its contribution to increasing the healthcare professional’s self-awareness – emotional, personal and professional, is also well underlined. Various Modules and Case Studies within the book are used to explain and highlight key issues, and to enhance content and visual acuity.
Download or read book Nursing Stories Ordinary People Extraordinary Journey written by Pedus C. Eweama and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us has at least once in our lifetime come into contact with nurses of all backgrounds, whether in the course of being cared for or while they care for our family and friends. More often than not, we have seen nurses as what they truly are: compassionate professionals who often go above and beyond the call of duty in an unequivocally selfless manner. But not many of us have taken time to ponder over the challenges nurses confront, the experiences they encounter, and the stories that come with these opportunities to change peoples lives and be sometimes changed in the course of doing so. This book, Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey, chronicles the challenges nurses face, the camaraderie they share, the experiences they have, and their unfaltering desire to make a difference. Many nurses of diverse specialties working across the globe have, in this book, succinctly told their stories, experiences, and challenges, not only to promote nursing as a profession in which one can make a difference, but also as one in which the difference one makes can help shape ones outlook on life. Every new page in this book highlights that while nurses try to change lives, a lot of them end up being changed themselves. Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey is a compilation of actual life-transforming stories that range from subtly hilarious stories to confronting clinical experiences. Some of the stories are intriguing, challenging, inspiring, scary, or outright inconceivable. Welcome to the world of nursing, welcome to Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey.
Download or read book Faith Poems written by Eileen M. Phelps and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry addresses many currently relevant topics. Mental Health and Injustice are two examples.
Download or read book A Fifty Year Nursing Career Unwrapped written by Pat Camillo and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing is a profession that is as varied as life itself! In my fifty years as a nurse, I practiced in all kinds of settings from hospitals to private offices and from storefront clinics to telehealth. I worked in intensive care and primary care. My patients ranged from high-risk newborns to chronically ill elderly, some of whom died in my arms. This memoir shares many of these powerful and unforgettable moments.My personal health paralleled my work. I was diagnosed with severe endometriosis at age 24, infertility, and eventually an early surgical menopause followed by bilateral mastectomies. There were periods of extreme stress that contributed to a midlife disability resulting in both of my hips being replaced.Through all of this, I clawed my way up the career ladder as an adult learner from a community college to a Ph.D. Being a single parent added yet another dimension to my life and understanding of how lives and health are often impacted by sociocultural circumstances. My story traces how and why I chose nursing and what beliefs and values guided me in the care that I gave to others. I felt compelled to confront racism, incivility, and unethical behavior both in clinical and academic settings. The negative consequences of these choices were followed by the trauma I experienced related to age discrimination. My story shines a light not only on nursing but on how culture impacts success or failure in the working world. It's a story that many will find relatable.
Download or read book Fifty Years of Travel by Land Water and Air written by Frank Hedges Butler and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imbeciles written by Adam Seth Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.
Download or read book Journeys written by Phyllis Karsnia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Phyllis Karsnia was bitten by the travel bug when a friend coaxed her to go on a trip to the Caribbean. That vacation was the first of many journeys.In her collection of travel adventures, Karsnia chronicles her travels to Portugal, Italy, England, Austria, Norway, the Greek Islands, and beyond. She explored the beauty, fun, and wonder of different countries and their cultures, histories, and people. Beginning with her initial trip to the Caribbean, Karsnia shares fascinating details and amusing stories that provide a glimpse into what it was like for a novice traveler as she stepped outside her comfort zone and embraced the world through travel. As she received a blessing by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square, visited Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, prayed in a Buddhist Temple, and joined a parade during Norway's celebration of Syttende Mai, she gathered memories, celebrated differences, and learned meaningful lessons.Journeys is a collection of travelogues highlighting the author's unforgettable experiences as she toured around the world. She punctuates her adventures with humorous stories about everyday events and retreats with sisters who love each other and love to play pranks. on a serious note, Karsnia also joins the re-opened discussions about equality in the workplace and working mothers.
