Download or read book Touched by a Nurse written by Jim Kane (RN.) and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurses narrate personal stories and encounters offering the opportunity for all nurses to be reminded of those meaningful events that constitute nursing. Real experiences enhance the image of nursing by presenting the special elements of the relationships between nurses and the people in their care. 126 vignettes from nurses around the world and in a variety of disciplines come together in this text to show how the drama of the daily life of nursing brings about universal, spiritual lessons. This is the perfect resource to show your students the human aspect of nursing and a perfect gift for a colleague or yourself!
Download or read book A Nurse s Touch written by Tomekia Luckett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as a nurse is challenging emotionally, physically, and at times spiritually. When you are experiencing a challenging day, a dose of inspiration will help to pull you through. The Scriptural passages, inspirational quotes, and devotionals inspired by the Holy Spirit will lift you up and remind you that God is bigger than the challenges you face.
Download or read book Inspired Nurse written by Rich Bluni and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The same qualities that make nursing so deeply rewarding can also make it a challenge, over time, to sustain your energy and passion. Learn to maintain and recapture those elusive qualities.
Download or read book Touch written by Brian Gene Evans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a shorter version of my first "To Nurse Means to Nurture" that I have written to put special emphasis on "touch" and how it applies to nurses. First, I ran into nurses that said, "It's not in my job description to comfort my patients" in the past 3 years. When I proved them wrong, they said, "Yes, but that does not include physical contact. No hugging and no touching. It's not in our job description." I wrote this book to show you that the direct opposite is true. You will see references to "touch" and "touch therapy" and "comfort" used several times over in various college textbooks of nursing, especially Fundamentals of Nursing 7th Edition, Potter and Perry, Mosby Elsevier, 2009 and my notes on nurse education videos I have seen with my own eyes that actually show female nurses in action "touching" both male and female middle aged patients who are not dying but just having procedures done by "rubbing their heads", "holding their hands", "patting their shoulders", and "rubbing their shoulders" to comfort them through needle sticks and procedures. St. Jude's Hospital Commercials also show their female nurses doing all of these same things for both their male and female kid patients as well as "hugging" them and "putting their arm around them" in addition to the hand holds, head rubs, and shoulder pats. They do it all. The Health Care Career Vision DVD from 2008 says, "Nurses need to be comfortable "touching" their patients if they are to work with them. Fundamentals of Nursing 7th Edition, Potter and Perry, Mosby Elsevier 2009 says this very same thing. It continually encourages touch and touch therapy and says that the "patient's needs take priority over the nurses' needs and the patient's needs are to be met above that of the nurses." It constantly tells them to comfort them and touch them as well as does 'Basic Psychophysiologic Nursing from 1979 and a few other sources. So, does the AARP magazine in an article about Dr. Meir trying to change the face of the medical community to make them more of a palliative care team and comfort their patients rather than treat them like objects, and the article from "The Power of Touch" from December 2015-January 2016s edition. I already had dictionary and encyclopedia references to nurses comforting their patients, and "to nurse means to nurture" in the dictionary. Because these nurses insist that comfort "does not" include physical contact, I have included dozens of comments on "Touch" and "Touch Therapy" from these sources and others. Other videos also showed nurses hugging patients and rubbing their heads and holding their hands. There are even a slew of pictures on the internet of Nursing Hugging their Patients when you type that in or comforting their patients if you type that in. It's not anything new. They've always done it, and what makes them think they haven't I don't know. You're not a bunch of professionals from a firm taking care of robots, you are nurses and you are the caretakers of those in your care and you are the "mother surrogates" of the patients in your care and you are to show them the same affection and attention as their own mother would as stated by Lisa Newton who defends the traditional role of the nurse. I hope this solves this dilemma of this "no touch" nursing philosophy everybody has and makes them see the light to the true meaning of nursing. Please read my book and be enlightened as to what the profession of nursing really entails. Thanks. Your friend, Brian Gene Evans
Download or read book 101 Reasons to be a Nurse written by Vilma Saviski and published by Believe Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of author's personal reflections on nursing designed to inspire nurses by acknowledging their important role in our society and provide insight into the profession for those considering nursing as a career. Excellent gift or promotional item for nurses or anyone considering nursing as a career.
Download or read book Call the Nurse written by Mary J. MacLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.
Download or read book To Nurture to Care to be a Nurse written by Peter Jaret and published by Sigma Theta Tau. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To care. To advocate. To innovate. To be a nurse.
Download or read book Nurse patient Touch written by Jane A. Roe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What It Means to Be a Nurse written by Snarkynurses and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted, inspiring, and timely look at the daily challenges and triumphs nurses face—all while reminding nurses exactly why they continue to work on the frontline. Being a nurse is not an easy task. From the endless hours battling COVID-19 to an often-times stressful work environment to those delightful patients who always insist they somehow know more than the medical professionals helping them—RNs everywhere know the struggle. What It Means to Be a Nurse takes an amusing look at some of the challenges these medical professionals face on a daily basis. Adding a laugh-out-loud spin that is both entertaining and relatable, this must-have book reminds nurses exactly why they love their hospitals, doctors, and patients, even on the tough days. With a heaping helping of humor and love, this book shares the inspiring and heartwarming stories that show us all why nurses are our heroes.
Download or read book Talk Like a Nurse written by Susan Dandridge Bosher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk Like a Nurse: Communication Skills Workbook is a hands-on workbook designed to help you develop effective English language communication skills for the real-world work environment. Strengthen your language skills for the specific job needs of nursing with over 100 interactive exercises focusing on: medical/nursing terminology, abbreviations, change-of-shift and telephone reports, documentation skills, nursing care plans, therapeutic communication skills, interviewing skills, assertiveness skills, and more! Contextualized through clinically and culturally diverse patient scenarios, Talk Like a Nurse is ideal for ESL students in nursing and pre-nursing programs, as well as native English speakers eager to sharpen their nursing communications. Features: Integrated nursing content and language practice; Patient scenarios, nursing diagnoses, and nurse-patient dialogues in every chapter; Samples and practice writing nursing reports, using medical terminology, recognizing cultural perspectives, and more; 100+ interactive exercises.
Download or read book The Nurse s Calling written by Mary Elizabeth O'Brien and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran nurse researcher and educator provides a spiritual perspective on the professional nurse's vocation of caring. Grounding each chapter in Scripture, O'Brien explores the Christian nurse's call to love as Jesus loved: without discrimination, reserve and, sometimes, reward.
Download or read book Confessions of a Male Nurse The Confessions Series written by Michael Alexander and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.
Download or read book Nightingale Tales written by Lynn Dow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, nurses served as handmaidens to the physician; by the start of the new millennium, they had become admired independent practitioners. Nightingale Tales is a peek into that transition, as told by a nurse who lived it. Each chapter is a stand-alone story depicting the ridiculous mores nurses have been subjected to over the years, the archaic equipment they’ve had to struggle with, and the changes in the profession, brought about by time, the feminist movement, and advances in technology. Told with humor and compassion, the stories of Nightingale Tales provides an unusual—and highly entertaining—window into the world of medicine from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
Download or read book The Practical Moral and Personal Sense of Nursing written by Anne H. Bishop and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing is the first explicitly philosophical articulation in English of the essence of nursing from a phenomenological perspective. The authors interpret nursing as competencies and excellences that are exercised in an in-between situation characteristic of nursing practice (the practical sense) which fosters the well-being of patients (the moral sense) within the nurse-patient relationship (the personal sense). This directly challenges the current tendency to reconstruct nursing by using theories drawn from the behavioral and natural sciences, and shows why nursing must be reformed from within. Bishop and Scudder stress the use of phenomenology to articulate an actual practice, showing the unique capacity of phenomenology to illuminate actual situations and to generate fresh understandings of old problems.
Download or read book Officer Nurse Woman written by Kara Dixon Vuic and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight.
Download or read book Nurses written by Michael Brown and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unsung heroes of health care at last let their voices be heard in this important addition to the bestselling true medicine list. From every area of hospital work, here are real nurses' accounts of the tensions of an inner-city emergency room, the action of a Mobile Care Unit, the tragedy of an AIDS clinic, the hope of a maternity ward, and more. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Touched by Angels of Mercy written by Laura Lagana and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touched by Angels of Mercy contains small doses of genuine life, from nurses, patients and caregivers, that touch the heart and foster healing. This collection of short stories and poems, interspersed with tasteful cartoons, contains helpful resource information, as well as a brief biography of each contributing author. Many of the works in this collection offer a glimpse into the nurse-patient relationship, as seen through the eyes of the patient, nurse or family member. Some of the stories reveal caregiving scenarios taken from brief moments in history, behind prison walls or even on a golf course. Anyone may be labeled an "Angel of Mercy." This term is not exclusive to nurses. Our world needs the healing "angels" who come to us in a variety of forms, when and where we least expect them. At some time in our lives, each one of us will encounter illness, pain and death. Along with it will come the need for a helping hand and the gentle, caring touch of an "angel of mercy." Everyone has the ability to be courageous, tenacious and loving. When people are hurting, whether from illness, injury or other reasons, they have the instinctive need to be touched and nurtured. People also have the need and desire to share their experiences with others. This process of sharing is frequently healthful and therapeutic. The strength, knowledge and inspiration that comes from recounting personal life and death experiences with one another stimulates healing. The profession of nursing deals with the prevention of illness, as well as the care and rehabilitation of the sick. Although it takes a special person to answer this "calling," todays nurses are vastly different from those of yesteryear. The changing world of healthcare has created unique challenges and added pressures for nursing, but it has also created new frontiers. In addition, there is a growing number of caregivers in our society. Caregivers often feel isolated, apprehensive, exhausted and overwhelmed. They desperately need relief as well as ongoing support. Nurses and caregivers reach out and become "angels" for others. They are compassionate, intelligent and caring beings that provide hands-on care to help the sick to heal, or comfort them as they die. Nurses and caregivers are not invincible; they also need to take care of themselves. The need to be touched by another, and to share personal experiences, are universal human requirements. The strength, knowledge and inspiration that comes from recounting personal life and death experiences fosters healing. Wounds heal from the inside out--so does the heart and soul. Writing these stories has been a therapeutic experience for our authors, and for some, an extremely difficult task. It is our hope that by reading and sharing these real-life, personal experiences, you too will be touched, inspired and healed.
