Tenderly lift me : nurses honored, celebrated, and remembered / [compiled by] Jeanne Bryner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryner, Jeanne, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurse and patient--Poetry.

Nurse and patient.

Nursing--Poetry.

Nursing.

Nurses--Poetry.

Nurses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2004]

Summary:

"I approached the study of historical and contemporary nurses with my sleeves rolled up, pencil sharpened, and camera loaded. What draws a person to those who are ill and keeps us at the bedside? Every question I asked the nurses, I asked myself. Heart first, I plunged into stories about historical nurses whose names I had never heard. Somehow, they chose me as the vehicle for retelling their remarkable story. As I conducted interview after interview, I found threads of sameness in the the lives of my nurses. In childhood, illness and often death was a member of their family. They had strong female role models in their homes. They were independent thinkers and firm decision makers who were not afraid of change and saying the truth about mistakes in their lives. They had spiritual convictions about a well-lived life and made no-never-mind to passing from this world to the next. I listened carefully. Tenderly Lift Me barely scratches the surface of who they are and what they have done for humanity."-Jeanne Bryner Those who teach the literature of medicine have questioned why there is a lack of rich materials that connects nursing and the humanities. Author and poet Jeanne Bryner has gathered biographical sketches of remarkable nurses, each accompanied by poetry and photographs, and has created the multigenre presentation that is the compassionate and complex Tenderly Lift Me. This is the first book in the Literature and Medicine Series that concentrates on nurses' voices and their experiences with providing health care. It enhances and extends perspectives on how health care is understood and delivered by recognizing nurses as the primary care givers.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1

Learning the Body

Standing There

Side Rails

Father Damien

To the Place of Orchids

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

Covering Lilacs

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Elsewhere Sparrows: A Note to Some Physicians

Rita Marie Magdaleno

Teaching Women to Speak

Part 2

Sandi Petek

Village

Carlyann Markusic

Story

Sue Zenko

What Has Happened

Joanne Fowler

One Nurse's Job: Eye Recovery on a Kindergartner

Rita Richards

Testimony

Pat Austin

A Boat They Float In

Elfriede Anton

Underground: A Note to My Brother, Kurt

Theresa Marcotte Kokrak

To Save What We Most Love

Terri Swearingen

The Evolution of Light: East Liverpool, Ohio, Site of the WTI Incinerator

Helen Albert

Juba

Esther Baker

Letter to Josephine, 1996

Part 3

Renaissance Sketchbook: A Woman's Story

Miscarriage: The Nurse Speaks to the Baby

Maude Callen

For Maude Callen: Nurse Midwife, Pineville, South Carolina, 1951

Holding Back the World

Helen Troy

Letter to Christine: Girl Baby Found, Ohio Hospital, 1958

Sylvia Engelhardt

How I Lost My Job as a Staff Nurse in 1969 Because I Was Pregnant

August Delivery

Part 4

Hope Chest: What the Heart Teaches

Carol L. Johnson

On My Gloves Blood Dries in a Pattern Like Faded Roses in Wallpaper

At Dusk, Two Women Trace a Heart's River

Jeannette Price

Letter to World War I Surgeon Dr. Henry Russell, from Nurse Jeanette Price, September 1929

Part 5

Nora Mary Carmody McNicholas

What It Cost to Cross the Atlantic

Jeanne Bryner

Becoming a Nurse

Breathless

Body of Knowledge: Remembering Diploma Nursing Schools, 1976

Letter from Ward Three

Avanell Arlene Sutherland

Loving Women

This Red Oozing.

The Labor of Tenderness

After the Battle: In a Room Where We Have Tried to Save a Life

Part 6

Butterfly

Genevieve Schmitt

Mentally Traumatized Unit: Nursing Assignment, England 1942

Phyllis Fischer

To My Town Came a Snow Storm, Nurse's Diary, City Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio, November, 24, 1950

Rebecca Ann Needham Anderson

Call and Response

Birch Canoe

Betty Jane Panchik

November 1963

Hortense Wood

At Thirteen, I Decide to Become a Nurse

Warblers

Jane Ball

What Nurses Do: The Marriage of Suffering and Healing

June Elizabeth Conolly

School Nurse

Helen Krier

Christmas Is Another Moon

Darrell Grace

When I Tell My Mother I Want to Be a Doctor

Judy Waid

Pentimento

Lynda Arnold

Begin Again

Part 7

The Sisters of St. Joseph's Hospitallers

Interview with Sister Denis of St. Joseph's Hospitallers Colony of Montreal, New France, 1694

Kate Cumming

Wait for Morning: From Kate Cumming's Journal

Jane Stuart Woolsey

Jane Stuart Woolsey, Union Nurse from Camp, near Alexandria, 1862

Nurse's Letter, May 30, 1864, Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Rebecca Taylor

A Tribute to Miss Rebecca Taylor upon Retirement after Thirty-Four Years

Edith Cavell

Houses Are Burning: Belgium, 1915

Part 8

If It Weren't For Ears

The Brain's Soliloquy

Clay Pigeon

In Praise of Hands

Permissions

Notes on the Text

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781631010934

163101093X

OCLC:

922996025