Learning to heal : reflections on nursing school in poetry and prose / edited by Jeanne Bryner and Cortney Davis ; foreword by Judy Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryner, Jeanne, 1951- editor.

Davis, Cortney, 1945- editor.

Schaefer, Judy, writer of foreword.

Series:

Literature and medicine (Kent, Ohio) ; 26.

Literature and Medicine ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses' writings, American.

Nursing--Literary collections.

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Fifty nurses discuss various aspects of student nursing and provide historical perspective on nursing and nursing education through personal essays and poems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

I have never been so afraid.

Linda Maurer Tuthill

A School for Hands

Saundra Sarsany

For Now

I Became a Nurse

Barbara Broome

I Am Not Superwoman

Anne Webster

One Nurse's Education

Jeanne LeVasseur

Each One, Alone

Becoming Real

Madeleine Mysko

The Sacraments of Sister Thecla

Rachel Renee Gage

The Musical Sound Track in a Nurse's Day

M. Ben Melnykovich

My Second Go-Around

Amy Haddad

Ablutions

Cortney Davis

Selling Kisses at the Diner

Joanne Clarkson

First Patient

Stacy Nigliazzo

In my first year

Miriam Crawford Grant

The Titan in Room 406

Part II

How many languages are there? I wondered

Kelly Sievers

Heads Bowed

Whispered

Jeanne Bryner

Debridement, Burn Unit, 1978

Minnie Brown Carter

Inequality, Work, Perseverance, Sleepless Nights, Service

Eileen Valinoti

Hospital Corners

Pattama Ulrich

Me and the New World

Paula Sergi

The Structure of Nursing School in an Otherwise Chaotic Life

Judy Schaefer

After the Code, Student Nurse

I've singing lessons

Mary Gavan

When to Hold and When to Fold

Nursing 101

Yolanda Perez-Shulman

My First Clinical Day

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

Heather Foster

Marriage as Sterile Technique

Lady Amaka Offodile

From a Far Place

Relics

These Also Were My Teachers, Senior Year, 1978

Part III

I can put the words down, like a hand against suffering

Geoffrey Bowe

Student Nurse: An Early Experience in Mental Health

Marilyn Mitchell

A Hundred Thousand Hospital Beds

Rosa M. Sacharin

Nurse Training in Scotland 1943-1951

Rosanne Trost

Lesson Learned

Patricia Kalas.

My Most Selfless "Patient," My Greatest Teacher

Rev. Robert J. Kus

The Pin

Calvert and Pleasant

Dissection

Ellen Hunter Ulken

Of Nursing School

Rotation

Celia Brown

My First Journey Abroad

Kathleen Goldbach

Dirty Utility Room

James Guliano

Sacred Values, Soothing Silence

Patricia Harman

My Patients, My Teachers

Helen Albert

Helen Albert, First Black Registered Nurse Hired in Trumbull County, Ohio

Part IV

And the baby's head emerges, his hair dark and wet like the earth after rain.

Rita Maria Magdaleno

May Snapshot, 1966

The First Hour

Virginia Ruth

Mr. Magoo of Nursing School

Student Nurse on a Bus

Muriel Murch

The Bed Bath

Human Anatomy Class

Wednesday's Child

Kristine Garcia-Cross

Student Nurse: Last Clinical Day, OB, Block 3

Part V

He cradles his sax, gone the rush of his breath through the reed.

Nancy Kerrigan

Ward 24

Visiting Nurse (1963)

Kathleen Cadmus

The Novice

Brookwood Female Geriatric

Beverly Mitchell

Rabbit Hole

There Is Mud Here

Men's Ward, Psych Rotation, 1978

The Sister on the Chronic Ward

Veneta Masson

Morning Report

Passages

Frances Smalkowski

The Silent Treatment

Early Days of Shift Work

The Nurse's First Autopsy

Surgical Rotation

Part VI

Most of us need a teacher, someone who has traveled this way before

A Nursing Remedy for Earaches

Elayne Clift

Whiteout

Amanda Anderson

Learning to Care

Goeffrey Bowe

Student Nurse in a Jail Cell: A Birthday to Remember

Passage

Stephanie L. Ezell.

Forgiveness

Life Flight

Theodore Deppe

From Little Colloquium by the Sea (a book-length poem)

Geraldine Gorman

Learning the Wisdom of Tea

From Beginning to End

Duty Bound

Belle Waring

You Could Have Been Me

I Want to Work in a Hospital

Afterword

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781631013621

1631013629

9781631013614

1631013610

OCLC:

1059270292