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I wasn't strong like this when I started out : true stories of becoming a nurse / edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nurses--Biography.
- Nurses.
- Nurses' writings.
- Nursing.
- Nurses--psychology.
- Nurse's Role.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nurses--psychology.
- Nursing.
- Nurse's Role.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages.)
- Other Title:
- I was not strong like this when I started out
- Becoming a nurse
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : InFact Books, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Nurses, now more than ever, are the backbone of the healthcare system, the first line in providing the best possible care for all patients. Often, nursing demands technical expertise; sometimes, as these stories reveal, patients also need something more basic: a hand to hold, or someone to listen closely. Being on the front lines of medicine requires empathy, fortitude, knowledge, and grace. The stories collected here reveal nurses at all stages of their careers-passionate, terrified, sometimes simply exhausted-as they take on one of the most challenging and underappreciated jobs in the world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Anonymous, irreplaceable nurse / Lee Gutkind
- Foreword : Art of meeting patient need / Karen Wolk Feinstein
- Hitting the bone / Eddie Lueken
- Haunting / Thomas Schwarz
- Becoming a nurse / Laura DeVaney
- Next of kin / Josephine Ensign
- Healing Wang Jie's bottom / L Darby-Zhao
- Zeitgeber / Denise Elliott
- Long night's journey into day / Theresa Brown
- Don't ever forget me / Christopher Lance Coleman
- Heart lessons / Diane Kraynak
- Docking in Togo / Jennifer Binger, as told to Ann Swindell
- I see you / Tilda Shalof
- Listening and other lifesaving measures / Karla Theilen
- Careening toward reunion / Nina Gaby
- Nurse Nora at nineteen / Nora Casper
- Four sticks / Janice Dvorak
- Messiah, not otherwise specified / Janet Gool
- All alone and afraid: becoming a person through nursing / Anna Gersman
- Individually identifiable / Pamela Baker
- Approaching death / Kimberly A Condon
- Nurses whispered / Patricia A Nugent
- Becoming / Lori Mulvihill.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781937163136
- 193716313X
- Publisher Number:
- 99970143657
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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