Download or read book Unforgettable Faces written by Elizabeth D. Tate and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in major New York City clinics, this creative, non-fiction narrative features human interest stories. Its uplifting and positive human journey through the gamut of emotions makes it a compelling page turner. Unforgettable Faces explores the bonds between a nurse practitioner and her patients, her struggle to be true to herself and her professional role, and the obstacles she encounters. Succinct, updated health information for the health- conscious consumer follows each story.

Download or read book Life of a Nurse written by Alice Marlett and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex healthcare system involving many moving parts often makes us forget what matters most is the people. Marlett presents her observations of the inner workings of the hospital system with a book that tells what it is really like to work in one as a nurse. Not only does Marlett tell us her story, but she also tells us her patients’ stories. And it’s their stories that ultimately form the heart and soul of Marlett’s book. — Dylan Ward, The US Review of Books If I was considering a career change, this book might encourage me to become a nurse, or it might dissuade me from becoming a nurse. Either way, it’s a no-holds-barred look at nursing. Alice Marlett’s writing is so descriptive that readers will feel like they’re on the hospital floor with her. — Joe Wisinski, Readers’ Favorite I liked...the uncompromising honesty concerning cases of negligence in health facilities. Further, the book sufficiently explores the risks associated with understaffing in nursing. — Kibetious, Online Book Club

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 Round Eyes an American Nurse in Vietnam written by Diane Klutz and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1969 -- Woodstock, free love, peace marches and war. Life was unpredictable at best, but that didn't stop twenty-year-old Diane Mumper from going after her dream of adventure. Soon to graduate from nursing school, she joined the Army Nurse Corps, and six months later she began her journey. Often comical and frequently cynical, Diane's stories describe her experiences from basic training through duty in one of the most deadly war zones in South Vietnam. Along the way, she faces a truth about herself and the war far different than she ever expected.

Download or read book The Shift written by Theresa Brown and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. Unfolding in real time--under the watchful eyes of this dedicated professional and insightful chronicler of events--The Shift gives an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country. By shift’s end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and humanity.

Download or read book In Hospital and Camp written by Harold Elk Straubing and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology tells the fascinating story of how medicine was practiced in military hospitals and in the field during the Civil War. Includes first-person accounts by Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman.

Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Travel Nurse written by Teresa Stroud and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells about my work as a travel nurse, the locations I was in, and the patients, as well as staff, in each location I worked with.

Download or read book Life of a Nurse written by Alice Marlett and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What I have written is not a story; it is pages from a journal that I kept during my first 11 years of nursing. It's the good, bad, funny, and sad, of what I experienced while working on several different types of units at different hospitals. It contains observations of hospital care that may be helpful to new nurses, or anyone. I wrote from 1999 to 2010. There have been many advancements in healthcare since then, but basic nursing care remains much the same. Everything is true, except the names have been changed.

Download or read book I Should Have Been a Teacher written by R. G. Thomas and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold, snowy day in 1991 as R. G. Thomas, his wife, and young son traveled to go Christmas shopping, their car rounded a curve in the road, revealing a horrific car accident. After Thomas stopped to assist in any way he could, he felt helpless as he watched a nurse expertly attend to the unconscious driver and other passengers. If only I could do something, he thought to himself. In a matter of minutes, the course of Thomass life had changed forever. After he witnessed the gruesome car crash, Thomas decided to train to become an EMT. While the work was rewarding, it was not long before Thomas craved something more and enrolled in school to become a flight nurse. He embarked on a journey that took him down a path of challenging tests, both academically and personally. In this memoir, Thomas reveals how he battled insecurities and fears, soon discovering the emotional roller coaster ride nurses must take while training and caring for a variety of patients. I Should Have Been a Teacher provides an eye-opening glimpse into the unpredictable life of a nurse, the emergency room, and all those who have a dream of making society better by making it their lifes mission to care for the injured, sick, and dying.

Download or read book A Nurse s Story written by Tilda Shalof and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her quick remarks. Frances, from Newfoundland, was famous for her improvised recipes. Justine, the union rep, wore t-shirts emblazoned with defiant slogans, like “Nurses Care But It’s Not in the Budget.” Shalof was the one who had been to university. The others accused her of being “sooo sensitive.” They depended upon one another. Working in the ICU was both emotionally grueling and physically exhausting. Many patients, quite simply, were dying, and the staff strove mightily to prolong their lives. With their skill, dedication, and the resources of modern science, they sometimes were almost too successful. Doctors and nurses alike wondered if what they did for terminally-ill patients was not, in some cases, too extreme. A number of patients were admitted when it was too late even for heroic measures. A boy struck down by a cerebral aneurysm in the middle of a little-league hockey game. A woman rescued – too late – from a burning house. It all took its toll on the staff. And yet, on good days, they thrived on what they did. Shalof describes a colleague who is managing a “crashing” patient: “I looked at her. Nicky was flushed with excitement. She was doing five different things at the same time, planning ahead for another five. She was totally focused, in her element, in control, completely at home with the chaos. There was a huge smile on her face. Nurses like to fix things. If they can.” Shalof, a veteran ICU nurse, reveals what it is really like to work behind the closed hospital curtains. The drama, the sardonic humour, the grinding workload, the cheerful camaraderie, the big issues and the small, all are brought vividly to life in this remarkable book.

Download or read book The Nurse s Story written by Carol Gino and published by aaha! Books. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse's life.

Download or read book Into the Lion s Den written by Laura Luther and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019, Kansas City ICU nurse Laura Luther weathered a myriad of life changes and losses. She got married, lost her father-and then her puppy-and spent her husband's birthday in the hospital emergency department after suffering a panic attack. In February 2020, after four months trying to bring herself back to life with therapy, antidepressants, and nights out at bars, she was just starting to feel like herself again.Then, in March 2020, the entire world turned upside down. In what seemed like an instant, the medical and surgical intensive care unit in which Laura worked turned into a COVID-19 trauma center, and suddenly Laura was witnessing more death and despair than she ever thought possible.A few weeks into the pandemic, Laura was offered the opportunity to take her nursing skills to one of the epicenters of the crisis: New York City. Into the Lion's Den is Laura's heartbreaking, deeply personal account of the thirteen weeks that followed. Thirteen weeks in a COVID-19 ICU in a city with the highest COVID case and death counts in the world. Thirteen weeks of pain, loss, and profound self-discovery that would change her perspective on life forever.

Download or read book The Language of Kindness written by Christie Watson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients. In the neonatal unit, premature babies fight for their lives, hovering at the very edge of survival, like tiny Emmanuel, wrapped up in a sandwich bag. On the cancer wards, the nurses administer chemotherapy and, long after the medicine stops working, something more important--which Watson learns to recognize when her own father is dying of cancer. In the pediatric intensive care unit, the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smoke from the house fire. The emergency room is overcrowded as ever, with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients as well as patients like Betty, a widow suffering chest pain, frail and alone. And the stories of the geriatric ward--Gladys and older patients like her--show the plight of the most vulnerable members of our society. Through the smallest of actions, nurses provide vital care and kindness. All of us will experience illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend on the support and dignity that nurses offer us; yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung. In this age of fear, hate, and division, Christie Watson has written a book that reminds us of all that we share, and of the urgency of compassion.

Download or read book Reflections on Nursing written by American Journal of Nursing and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering life- and career-changing moments in nurses’ lives, the 80 true stories in Reflections on Nursing reveal nursing at its most demanding and fulfilling. Written mainly by nurses offering care at home, hospital, or hospice, these first-person stories convey the professional burdens, personal growth, and inner realizations found in the course of patient care. Whether you are a new or experienced practitioner, or just fascinated by nursing care in action, these inspiring true stories show nursing as both professional and life experience, and often, as an inspired journey. Experience the challenges and hard-earned wisdom of these real-life nursing moments: · Written by or about nurses of all experience levels and in numerous care settings, including stories about memorable nurses written by patients, family members, and doctors · Dive into these engrossing short stories, and go on a journey with: the nurse who inspires dignity and strength in a young soldier who is losing his wife the young nurse who stands up to a bullying preceptor the nurse who realizes her best friend, a fellow nurse, is stealing drugs from their unit the nurse struggling to give adequate care to seven patients at once on an understaffed unit the retired doctor who recalls the nurse who saved him, as a young intern, from mishandling a crucial situation with a dying patient the nurse who takes on an angry patient with a challenging case, to offer special help and encouragement nurses who become a patient The nurse/administrator who pushes hard for administrative decisions that will support nurses and improve patient care the inspiring patients who help nurses remember why they became a nurse

Download or read book Front Line Nursing Stories written by Marian Facciolo and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When reading real-life stories about nursing, you might not expect mentions of fox fur coats or cages full of snakes (“five feet long and very skinny”). Yet these amusing vignettes sit alongside harrowing tales of plane crashes and time-honoured memories of Florence Nightingale. Front Line Nursing Stories is a compelling anthology of first-hand accounts longtime nurse and author Marian Facciolo collected from women who have worked in hospitals, care homes, communities, and prisons from the 1940s to present day, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. The substance of these stories remain faithful to the nursing profession, without venturing too deep into technical terminology. At the same time, Facciolo asks readers to consider whether supports for the increased expectations of the profession (education, skills, workload) have kept pace. Front Line Nursing Stories is an eye-opening look at the evolution of healing as a profession, poignantly and pointedly shared through the eyes of women who have helped babies draw their first breaths and comforted palliative patients so they can die with dignity. Facciolo’s book, at its core, is a tribute to the power of compassion and humanity, perhaps at a time in the world when it is needed most.

Download or read book Nursing in the Storm written by Denise Danna, DNS, RN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 PROSE Award Winner for Nursing & Allied Health Sciences! 2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Public Interest and Creative Works! "The accounts are vivid, colorful, descriptive, intense, and often horrific and give cross-sectional views of life in the trenches during this disasterÖThis book is a rich primary source for both historians and disaster preparedness planners. It's not only a tribute to the courage of the nurses, but should also serve as a guide for policy planners hoping to avoid less than optimal responses to future crises."--AJN "[T]he book...fascinates simply for its raw documentation of the dreadful events and conditions endured by nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff as they struggled to care for critically ill patients without electricity, running water, air conditioning systems, and other resources. Five years after the levees broke, the horror and chaos of Katrina is still fresh in these accounts. Through the stories, readers are transported into the hospitals as nurses heroically work together to evacuate babies from NICUs and vented patients from ICU, try to calm patients, family members, and coworkers, and make do with the equipment and supplies theyíve got."--National Nurse "Don't ever think that this can't happen to you. You are going to read this and it's going to sound like we created this scenario, but this is a real scenario that happened." --Pam, Memorial Medical Center "Everything that was battery operated eventually died. There were no monitors...we tried to take care of people in the most humane way possible." --Lois, Lindy Boggs Medical Center Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina takes you inside six New Orleans hospitals-cut off from help for days by flooding-where nurses cared for patients around the clock. In this book, nurses from Hurricane Katrina share what they did, how they coped, what they lost, and what they are doing now in a city and health care infrastructure still rebuilding, still in jeopardy. In their own words, the nurses tell what happened in each hospital just before, during, and after the storm. Danna and Cordray provide an intimate portrait of the experience of Katrina, which they and their colleagues endured. Just a few of the heroic nurses you'll find inside: Rae Ann and twenty others, including her husband and children, who wait on a hospital roof for help to come Lisa, in the midst of caring for patients, who has not heard from her husband in 5 days Roslyn, who has 800 people in her hospital when the power generators shut down Linda, who uses bed sheets to write out help messages on a hospital roof, hoping someone will see them The book also discusses how to plan and prepare for future disasters, with a closing chapter documenting the "lessons learned" from Katrina, including day-to-day health care delivery in a city of crisis. This groundbreaking work serves as a testament to nurses' professionalism, perseverance, and unwavering dedication.

Download or read book Through These Eyes written by Elizabeth Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through These Eyes, is a collection of experiences and challenges in the form of stories during my nursing career that left an indelible mark upon my mind. Some of these experiences help to mold the way I saw my job and cared for my patients. Sometimes in executing one’s job as a nurse was like weathering a storm. The medical situation could be very critical, the storm brutal, survival depended on your execution of the client’s plan of care to save him/her and to save yourself. On days like that you really had to even breathe thoughtfully. Every day was a challenge to me. I prayed for guidance from a God who doesn’t exist for so many but for me the, “I am” was my lifeline. He was here before knowledge; therefore there was never a situation I didn’t trust him to help me assess and execute. I fought for every life that was put in my care as though my very existence depended on it. And you know what it did! As a part of the Medical Profession Registered Nurses have adopted an oath to serve without harm.