Download or read book The Making of a Nurse written by Tilda Shalof and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories. Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life—at home for her family, at work for strangers—but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current position on an ICU team in one of Canada’s largest hospitals, there have always been daunting challenges and worthy rewards for her work. With her trademark humour, unflinching honesty, and skilled storytelling, Shalof describes her experiences becoming the capable nurse she is today. After graduation from nurse’s college, finding no jobs in Toronto, Shalof travelled to Tel Aviv, Israel, to work in a hospital for the first time, finding adventure and young love in the process. A summer stint as a camp nurse came with requests for condoms, strange allergies, and overly protective parents. The Making of a Nurse contains these stories and much more, and they are comforting, entertaining, shocking, funny, heart-warming and heart-wrenching. From hospitals to home care, they will give readers a glimpse into the life of a nurse and the hidden medical world.

Download or read book An ER Nurse to Redeem Him written by Traci Douglass and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest installment of Traci Douglass’s Wyckford General Hospital quartet, discover what happens when attending a charity event together ends in the nurse and the EMT sharing an earth-shattering kiss! A REASON TO STAY? Flying EMT Tate is the new guy in town, but he won’t be staying long. Grief and guilt keep this ex-military medic on the move. Inadvertently becoming ER nurse Madi’s date to a charity auction should change nothing… But that’s before Tate and the usually cautious-in-love Madi share a toe-curling kiss! Is their unexpected connection the key to redeeming this haunted hero? From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine. Wyckford General Hospital Book 1: Single Dad's Unexpected Reunion Book 2: An ER Nurse to Redeem Him Book 3: Her Forbidden Firefighter

Download or read book First Do No Harm written by Jan L Eira, Dr and published by First Do No Harm by Dr. Eira. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people lie dead on the sterile floors of Newton Memorial Hospital. The shooter had been one of Dr. Jack Norris' patients. The chief of fellows is perplexed at how the sixty-three-year-old heart patient would have a gun, and why he would shoot Jack's best friend, Dr. John Connor, then turn the gun upon himself. Teaming up with local detectives and one FBI agent, a complicated network of scientists and professionals emerge as culprits in a web biological terrorism and greed. First, Do No Harm chronicles Jack Norris' attempt to diagnose a difficult heart disorder while simultaneously diagnosing Connor's murder.

Download or read book Anyone Anything Anytime written by Brian J. Zink and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful picture of an important period in the practice of medicine in the United States." (from the Foreword by Peter Rosen, MD) Here is the very first book to comprehensively explore the evolution of the field of emergency medicine -- from its origins following World War II, through the sociopolitical changes of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, to the present. First-hand narratives from more than 45 founders and pioneers of emergency medicine provide a vivid portrayal of the important events and viewpoints that have given rise to today's practice. Represents the first comprehensive history of emergency medicine as a specialty. Provides first-hand oral histories from more than 45 of the key figures who witnessed and helped to shape the developments chronicled in the book. Offers keen insights into how the sociopolitical changes of the 1950s through 1970s influenced public health, health care delivery, and emergency medicine. Includes many unique photographs of important leaders in emergency medicine.

Download or read book JURY written by Dada David E. and published by Dada David. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three things are certain: Taylor wants nothing to do with the Council; Emily knows more than she's letting on; and Taylor and the gang need to impress - fast. Taylor is not one to back down from a fight, and neither is Mike, his best friend. When Mike finally gets a shot at beating Taylor, parts of Taylor's pasts start coming to light. The Man, on the other hand, has no issues with this. His one goal is to ensure that Taylor and his group of friends are ready for the coming trouble that threatens everything the Council has built. But are they?

Download or read book Five Brothers and a Baby written by Peggy Moreland and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'LL GET OFF YOUR LAND, BUT THE BABY STAYS." Ace stared at the woman who stood defiantly on Tanner land with a blanket-wrapped bundle in her arms. It seemed he and his four brothers had inherited something besides the Bar-T. But what on earth was he supposed to do with a baby girl? All Maggie had done was deliver a motherless infant to its rightful heirs. Now Ace Tanner had asked her to move in, where she and the sexy rancher were soon sharing a lot more than middle-of-the-night feedings. Was instant fatherhood about to turn a rough-and-tumble loner into a family man to make the Lone Star state proud?

Download or read book Giving Them All Away written by Kristin Laurel and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moment like this becomes extraordinary,/when I think of how easily/it could have been overlooked; claims Kristin Laurel in her poem Ordinary Bliss. How lucky we are that Laurel refuses, over and over, to overlook the ordinary. This is a truly wonderful collection of poems that looks unflinchingly at the full spectrum of human pain and trauma, at the violence we do to ourselves and each other, and at the violence that the world inflicts on each and every one of us. What I admire above all is their tenderness and their hard-won humor: here is a poet who has seen as mother, lover, ER nurse and survivor the best and the worst we have to offer. To steal a phrase from Yeats, here is the world in all its terrible beauty. Here is a world of cut lilacs and metal, of broken minds and bodies, of bullets and vomit and “unhindered sky.” These are poems that resist easy redemption or absolution. Instead, they present the complex reality of what it means to be human, and they implore and challenge us, in their refusal to turn away, to stay human and to live with compassion. -- Jude Nutter, author of I Wish I Had A Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman and The Curator of Silence.

Download or read book The Storm of Creativity written by Kyna Leski and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process. Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us—if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. In illustrations that accompany each chapter, she maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm. Leski describes unlearning, ridding ourselves of preconceptions; only when we realize what we don't know can we pose the problem that we need to solve. We gather evidence—with notebook jottings, research, the collection of objects—propelling the process. We perceive and conceive; we look ahead without knowing where we are going; we make connections. We pause, retreat, and stop, only to start again. To illustrate these stages of the process, Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs, from the discovery of continental drift to the design of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia. Creativity, Leski tells us, is a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing. This revelatory view of the creative process will be an essential guide for anyone engaged in creative discovery. The Creative Process Unlearning Problem Making Gathering and Tracking Propelling Perceiving and Conceiving Seeing Ahead Connecting Pausing Continuing

Download or read book Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives written by Pamela Grim and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unflinching honesty, an ER doctor tells readers what it's really like to be a caring physician with one of the most demanding, exhilarating, frustrating, and rewarding jobs in the world. An emergency medicine physician for nearly a decade, Dr. Pamela Grim has delivered babies, treated heart attacks, saved car accident victims, comforted the dying, and consoled the living who were left behind. She has worked all over the world, caring for victims of gang life in America's inner cities, victims of the war in Bosnia, poverty-stricken patients in Nigeria, and bank presidents in the United States. Relating these rich and varied experiences with compelling prose, Dr. Grim takes readers into the E.R. and lets them experience first-hand what it takes to make split-second, life-and-death decisions in the course of an average day.

Download or read book When the Rain Comes written by Jodelle Yount and published by Yount Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the life of Jaz, an Emergency Medicine physician who experienced an atrocious trauma after witnessing the brutal murder of her sister. This resulted in her becoming a vigilante named Rain who hunts sex traffickers and became a champion for enslaved women and children. The book gives an inside look into what our heroine is thinking and feeling as she balances relationships such as when she meets the quirky and intuitive Freya, and friendships specifically with the intelligent and charming local detective Jack. This first book in the series follows the main character as she chases down a notoriously dangerous villain, Cain, who exploits and abuses women while maintaining a very clean public persona as the owner of a professional basketball team. You will not be able to put the story down. Full of twists and turns, action-packed, and some sexiness weaved in. You will be begging for more of Rain’s adventures!

Download or read book Save the Males written by Marc Silva and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabloid journalist Peter Woods returns from a harrowing assignment involving the Cascadian Neo-Nazi Militia only to find himself drafted into service by his friends, DaSilva and Costa--Portuguese assassins. The mission: Find a missing US operative believed to be hiding in Max Masons secret bunker. But the information the spy has in her head concerning the Sorodyne Corporation and its leader, Comrade Putzki, is more than anyone bargained for. Woods, DaSilva and Costa must pull out all the stops and beat the clock if they are to foil Comrade Putzkis evil plot!

Download or read book No Place for Dying written by Helen Stanton Chapple and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed project of rescue and the clinical culmination of death.

Download or read book The Bridge of Sighs written by Olen Steinhauer and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist... It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" the nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's Militia. The first victim is a state songwriter, but the facts point to a political motive. Emil would like to investigate further, but his colleagues in Homicide are suspicious or silent: He is on his own in this new, dangerous world. The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century. The Bridge of Sighs is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.

Download or read book The Broken Places written by Ace Atkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third gripping crime novel in Ace Atkins’s New York Times bestselling series, small town sheriff Quinn Colson takes on deadly criminals and even deadlier weather... A year after becoming sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, Quinn Colson is faced with a pardoned killer’s return to Jericho. Jamey Dixon now preaches redemption and forgiveness, but the family of the woman he was convicted of killing isn’t buying it. They warn Quinn that his sister’s relationship with Dixon could be fatal. Others don’t think the new preacher is a changed man, either—a couple of dangerous convicts who confided in Dixon about an armored car robbery believe he’s after the money they hid. So they do the only thing they can: break out and head straight to Jericho, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. Colson and his deputy, Lillie, have their work cut out for them. But they don’t count on one more unwelcome visitor: a tornado that causes havoc just as the manhunt heats up. Communications are down, the roads are impassable—and the rule of law is just about to snap.

Download or read book Strip Poker written by Nancy Bartholomew and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-11-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vincent Gambuzzo, the not-so-bright proprietor of the Tiffany Gentleman's Club in Panama City, Florida, loses his business playing poker, his headliner, exotic dancer Sierra Lavotini, faces a crisis. The new sign out front reads BIG MIKE'S HOUSE OF BOOTY, and Big Mike's new business strategy leaves a little to be desired in the class department and even less to the imagination of the increasingly rambunctious clientele. As the dancers' unofficial leader and mother hen, Sierra leads most of her coworkers in a walkout and schemes to restore Vincent to power. But he's in jail, charged with murdering a man in a shootout at the end of that same disastrous poker game. Can Sierra prove Vincent innocent, help her fellow out-of-work dancers, and manage to make next month's trailer payment without a job? With the help of her neighbor Raydean, her on-again boyfriend, Panama City Homicide Detective John Nailor, and her "uncle," "Big Moose" Lavotini of the New Jersey syndicate, of course she can, and it adds up to another fantastic ride in this hilarious and sexy series.

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by J. Russell Crabtree and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ecumenical resource that helps churches and church leaders begin to think about how to transform themselves into vital, flourishing organizations - transformation that requires deep, systemic change on the part of the bodies that are meant to help congregations live into their mission in the world. - Author is active consultant with mainline Protestant denominations and non-profits - Accessible style - Addresses issues of coping with change and conflict in congregations and denominations in the face of American cultural change.

Download or read book From the Mind of a Lunatic written by Donald O. Kelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young black man growing up in the corrupt city of Gary Indiana. His struggles with the temptations of everyday life. How a child of God chosen from birth to help in the struggles of God. His corruption of gang life, crooked cops, broken love, the struggle to find his true self. The ins and outs of living in a city drivin' itself into a destructive path through the struggle to survive. Subtle and rarely seen influences of love from God. Hate and jealousy of the Devil and our fellow man... -Steven G. Reed