Intensive care : more poetry & prose by nurses / edited by Cortney David & Judy Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Cortney, 1945-

Schaefer, Judy, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses' writings, American.

Nurse and patient--Literary collections.

Nurse and patient.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Nursing--Literary collections.

Nursing.

Nurses--Literary collections.

Nurses.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

xv, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2003]

Summary:

In Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses, sixty-five nurses from places as diverse as California and Alaska, South America and Europe, tell us in tough, revealing poems and prose what it's like to be on the front lines of health care. These nurses, both men and women, speak to us from intensive care units and operating rooms, from patients' homes and storefront clinics, from hospitals with the latest technology to small clinics in the steamy jungles of Nicaragua. They tell us what it's like to walk in their shoes and see the drama of illness and healing unfold before their eyes.

Contents:

Medical Ward / Krystina Ahlman 1

A Moment in the History of Nursing / Frances Murphy Araujo 3

Night Shift / Jane Bailey 6

September / Jane Bailey 7

Thin Margin / Carol Battaglia 9

The Dance / Andrea Lee Beliveau 10

Does This Date Mean Anything to You? / Lynn Bernardini 11

Object of Desire / Janet Bernichon 17

Chemo / Janet Bernichon 18

Sunday / Janet Bernichon 19

Mercy and Hemlock / Janet Bernichon 20

Code Blue / Janet Bernichon 21

Burn / Hanne Dina Bernstein 23

Down the Hospital Corridor / Hanne Dina Bernstein 23

Dar a Luz / Kirstin Bortz 25

Male Nurse Washing a Nun / Geoffrey Bowe 27

Dark Lines and Words / Geoffrey Bowe 28

Pick Up the Spoon / Geoffrey Bowe 29

The Essence of Nursing: 1967 / Ruth E. Brooks 30

The Crickets Went On Singing / Celia Brown 34

Forget-Me-Nots / Celia Brown 35

School Nurse's Journal / Celia Brown 36

In the Solarium / Celia Brown 37

Mammography: A Word with Grandma's Ghost / Celia Brown 38

Body of Knowledge: Remembering Diploma Schools, 1976 / Jeanne Bryner 40

Call and Response / Jeanne Bryner 41

Standing There / Jeanne Bryner 42

Breathless / Jeanne Bryner 43

Miscarriage: The Nurse Speaks to the Baby / Jeanne Bryner 44

What Nurses Do: The Marriage of Suffering and Healing / Jeanne Bryner 45

The Radio / Teresa Campbell 47

Slowly, Life Returned to Normal / Shulamith Cantor 49

Good-bye / Alice Capshaw 58

What Nurses Do Best / Marlene Cesar 59

In the OR / Robin Chard 61

The Color of Blood / Victoria May Collett 62

Career Day / Cortney Davis 67

The Swan by the Mall / Cortney Davis 68

Every Day, the Pregnant Teenagers / Cortney Davis 69

Water Story / Cortney Davis 70

How I'm Able to Love / Cortney Davis 70

The Other Side of Illness / Cortney Davis 72

Marisol / Theodore Deppe 75

Counting the Children / Theodore Deppe 77

What Thomas Wanted / Theodore Deppe 78

Children's Unit Blues / Theodore Deppe 79

One on One with Dylan Thomas / Theodore Deppe 81

Autopsy No. 24722 / Sandra Bishop Ebner 84

The Shape of the Human Spine / Sandra Bishop Ebner 85

Sarah's Pumpkin Bread / Terry Evans 87

Rubbing Her Back at the Nursing Home / Maureen Tolman Flannery 91

Premature / Helen Trubek Glenn 92

Eurydice in the State Hospital Laundry / Helen Trubek Glenn 93

Portrait / Helen Trubek Glenn 94

Edna's Star / Chris Grant 95

Conversation with Wendy / Amy Haddad 100

Port-a-Cath / Amy Haddad 101

Ten Items or Less / Amy Haddad 102

Tet, Vietnam 1968 / Pauline Hebert 103

The Story of Mr. President / Nina Howes 104

Age Garden / Karen Howland 105

The Teacher / Hilarie Jones 107

At the Beginning of Each Shift / Alyson Kennedy 109

Like a Night Watchman / Alyson Kennedy 110

The Facts of Lice in Nueva Vida, Nicaragua / Sue Klassen 111

Stethoscope / Shirley Kobar 114

Mourning Coffee / Joan Stack Kovach 115

Endurance and Faith / Debra Kowalski 118

Four Men, Sitting / Scott Chisholm Lamont 126

Not Mine / Scott Chisholm Lamont 129

Old Man in Bedclothes / Jeanne Levasseur 131

Redemption at the Women's Center / Jeanne Levasseur 132

Arrival / Jeanne Levasseur 133

The One / Jeanne Levasseur 134

Shifts / Jeanne Levasseur 135

Miss Smith / Patricia Maher 137

Charlie's Koan / Patricia Maher 137

Why We Wore White / Patricia Maher 138

The Nurse's Job / Veneta Masson 140

La Muerte / Veneta Masson 141

Negative Conditioning / Veneta Masson 142

Admission / Veneta Masson 143

Nurse in Neighborhood Clinic Disappeared / Veneta Masson 144

The Politics of Disease / Elizabeth Keough Mcdonald 147

Bataan Angels / Elizabeth Keough Mcdonald 148

A Nurse's Farewell / Pamela Mitchell 149

Mr. Tims's Morning / Muriel Murch 152

That Mystique / Madeleine Mysko 158

I Remember Vietnam / Carol Nachtrab 168

Change of Shift / Miriam Bruning Payne 171

Car Spotting / Christine Rahn 173

Pre-op / Geri Rosenzweig 185

Covert of Zero / Geri Rosenzweig 186

What Was Left of Summer / Geri Rosenzweig 187

What Nurses Do on Their Day Off / Jo-Anne Rowley 188

A Pediatric Nurse over Time / Judy Schaefer 189

Long Distance Call / Judy Schaefer 190

A Bridge / Judy Schaefer 191

Astronomy and Nursing / Judy Schaefer 192

Terminal Nurse: Reflections on New Millennium Nursing / Judy Schaefer 193

Eurycleia / Judy Schaefer 194

Home Visits / Paula Sergi 195

On Switching from Nursing to English / Paula Sergi 196

Long-Term Companion / Jessica Shrader 198

Girl / Kelly Sievers 199

RX for Nurses: Brag! / Kathleen Walsh Spencer 203

Sailor Explains Kissing the Nurse / Kathleen Walsh Spencer 204

Army Nurses, Vietnam, 1966 / Kathleen Walsh Spencer 205

Mercy / Constance Studer 207

We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story / Sallie Tisdale 221

The Door Locker / Janet Tripp 230

Nursing 101: Pediatric Rotation / Andrea Vlahakis 233

Sixteen Standing Hours / Faith Vroman 234

Shots / Belle Waring 235

The Forgery / Belle Waring 236

It Was My First Nursing Job / Belle Waring 238

Stuff I Learned in Nursing School / Anne Webster 241

Doppelganger / Anne Webster 242

Smile! You're in a Nursing Home / Mary Wentz 244

Neonatal ICU / Leigh Wilkerson 247

Hands Beckoning / Richard Yakimo 248.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0877458383

OCLC:

50774577