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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.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nurses--Biography.
- Nurses.
- Nursing.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource(272 pages)
- Other Title:
- True stories of becoming a nurse
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : 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:
- Hitting the Bone / Eddie Lueken Lueken, Eddie 25
- The Haunting / Thomas Schwarz Schwarz, Thomas 35
- Becoming a Nurse / Laura DeVaney DeVaney, Laura 47
- Next of Kin / Josephine Ensign Ensign, Josephine 57
- Healing Wang Jie's Bottom / L. Darby-Zhao Darby-Zhao, L. 71
- Zeitgeber / Denise Elliott Elliott, Denise 83
- A Long Night's Journey into Day / Theresa Brown Brown, Theresa 95
- Don't Ever Forget Me / Christopher Lance Coleman Coleman, Christopher Lance 105
- Heart Lessons / Diane Kraynak Kraynak, Diane 113
- Docking in Togo / Jennifer Binger, as told to Ann Swindell Swindell, Jennifer Binger, as told to Ann 129
- I See You / Tilda Shalqf Shalqf, Tilda 143
- Listening and Other Lifesaving Measures / Karla Theilen Theilen, Karla 153
- Careening toward Reunion / Nina Gaby Gaby, Nina 167
- Nurse Nora at Nineteen / Nora Casper Casper, Nora 181
- Four Sticks / Janice Dvorak Dvorak, Janice 191
- Messiah, Not Otherwise Specified / Janet Gool Gool, Janet 203
- All Alone and Afraid: Becoming a Person through Nursing / Anna German German, Anna 217
- Individually Identifiable / Pamela Baker Baker, Pamela 229
- Approaching Death / Kimberly A. Condon Condon, Kimberly A. 243
- The Nurses Whispered / Patricia A. Nugent Nugent, Patricia A. 251
- Becoming 259 Lori Mulvihill.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: I wasn't strong like this when I started out : true stories of becoming a nurse.
- ISBN:
- 9781937163136
- OCLC:
- 923686828
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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