Author: Barbara Ann Burke NA LVN ADN BSN MSN Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1481766015 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 169
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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!"
Author: Donna Cardillo, R.N. Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0593240456 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 337
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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.
Author: Jane Schuman Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 9781432738969 Category : Abortion services Languages : en Pages : 0
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"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.
Author: Shermane W Peters Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
Book Description
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
Author: Doris R. Schwartz Publisher: Churchill Livingstone ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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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.
Author: Louise Ray Morningstar Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing ISBN: 1461712912 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 204
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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.
Author: Ruth A. Bershok Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 9781098347796 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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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.
Author: Barbara Ann Burke NA LVN ADN BSN MSN
Author: Elizabeth Moorman
Author: Donna Cardillo, R.N.
Author: Lisa Wagner
Author: Jane Schuman
Author: Shermane W Peters
Author: Doris Janet Schwartz
Author: Doris R. Schwartz
Author: Louise Ray Morningstar
Author: Ruth A. Bershok