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The Call of Nursing: Stories from the Front Lines of Health Care
The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In it, we go behind the curtain of silence that hangs across the profession. It lets us hear why nurses today do what they do, and allows those nurses to show us-in their own words-what has mattered most to them in their professional careers A hospice nurse reveals the connection she develops to dying people. A medical missionary talks about using her skills as an RN, RT, and translator in Peru with CardioStart International. A labor & delivery nurse shares the rewards and challenges of caring for high-risk mothers and babies. A flight nurse describes the rigors of training in critical care and managing emotions, especially those that accompany pediatric trauma. An emergency and critical care nurse describes 9/11 as a rookie paramedic. A Navy nurse officer recalls caring for troops and villagers while serving in Iraq as a medic and nursing student. Also included are descriptions of the nontraditional routes each nurse took to achieve her or his educational and professional goals. The twenty-three intimate self-portraits in The Call of Nursing help us see more clearly the kinds of challenges nurses face and accept on a routine basis, and offer a rare glimpse into lives of women and men committed to care and service.
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The Call of Nursing: Stories from the Front Lines of Health Care
The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In it, we go behind the curtain of silence that hangs across the profession. It lets us hear why nurses today do what they do, and allows those nurses to show us-in their own words-what has mattered most to them in their professional careers A hospice nurse reveals the connection she develops to dying people. A medical missionary talks about using her skills as an RN, RT, and translator in Peru with CardioStart International. A labor & delivery nurse shares the rewards and challenges of caring for high-risk mothers and babies. A flight nurse describes the rigors of training in critical care and managing emotions, especially those that accompany pediatric trauma. An emergency and critical care nurse describes 9/11 as a rookie paramedic. A Navy nurse officer recalls caring for troops and villagers while serving in Iraq as a medic and nursing student. Also included are descriptions of the nontraditional routes each nurse took to achieve her or his educational and professional goals. The twenty-three intimate self-portraits in The Call of Nursing help us see more clearly the kinds of challenges nurses face and accept on a routine basis, and offer a rare glimpse into lives of women and men committed to care and service.
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Overview

The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In it, we go behind the curtain of silence that hangs across the profession. It lets us hear why nurses today do what they do, and allows those nurses to show us-in their own words-what has mattered most to them in their professional careers A hospice nurse reveals the connection she develops to dying people. A medical missionary talks about using her skills as an RN, RT, and translator in Peru with CardioStart International. A labor & delivery nurse shares the rewards and challenges of caring for high-risk mothers and babies. A flight nurse describes the rigors of training in critical care and managing emotions, especially those that accompany pediatric trauma. An emergency and critical care nurse describes 9/11 as a rookie paramedic. A Navy nurse officer recalls caring for troops and villagers while serving in Iraq as a medic and nursing student. Also included are descriptions of the nontraditional routes each nurse took to achieve her or his educational and professional goals. The twenty-three intimate self-portraits in The Call of Nursing help us see more clearly the kinds of challenges nurses face and accept on a routine basis, and offer a rare glimpse into lives of women and men committed to care and service.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780976881377
Publisher: Hudson Whitman/ Excelsior College Press
Publication date: 05/20/2013
Pages: 236
Sales rank: 454,018
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Gertrude B. Hutchinson viii

Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner, Professor of Nursing Dr. Colleen Walsh 3

Medical Mission Nurse in Peru Blythe Harrison-Sayre 11

Nurse from Russia Ekaterina Huelster 21

Dean of Nursing School Dr. Shelley Moriston 27

Hospice Nurse Rebecca Sweet 37

Oncology Nurse Kathy Browne 47

Critical Care/Flight Nurse Dr. Aaron Judkins 55

Maritime Occupational Health Nurse Nicole Shounder 67

Family Medicine Nurse at Army Health Center Tammy Warren 79

Director of Psychiatric Nurses John Summers 89

Labor and Delivery Nurse Melissa Erickson 101

Pediatric Nurse, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Christi Siedlicki 111

Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Nurse Gerald Hallman 117

Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Nurse Melinda Casson 127

Professor of Nursing Dr. Danette Wood 137

Navy Nurse Officer Jody Bedard 147

Paramedic, Nurse Practitioner, and Diabetes Educator Alicia LePard 155

Emergency Room Nurse in Okinawa Irina Vulakh 167

Flight Nurse Clint Kneuven 175

Paramedic/Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Margaret Chandler 185

Correctional/Military ER Nurse Francesca Lind 195

Hospice Nurse Cynthia Smathers 203

Director of Nursing Services Michael Yannotta 211

Afterword John Ebersole 219

Acknowledgements 221

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