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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. In Brown's skilled hands--as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful...
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Language
English
Description
In a gripping, behind-the-scenes look filled with drama, miracles, heartbreak, humor and unsung heroism, an award-winning journalist chronicles a year in the lives of four real-life hospital nurses, in a book that doubles as a shocking, unedited examination of our healthcare system.
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English
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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Kesey's work is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on literature. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.
Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Includes 201 nursing careers, each with career descriptions, educational requirements, and requisite skills; Provides information about certification and salaries with relevant websites included; Features interviews with nurses in academia and practice settings"--Cover.
7) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Language
Swedish
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An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema₂s most influential ideas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art can play in the grieving process"--
12) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
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Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Nurses have a hard job. They need advice that works. Being a nurse is physically and emotionally demanding; the shifts are long and grueling, there are always more tasks than time, and both your patients and coworkers can be difficult. It's no wonder that so many nurses suffer from stress and burnout. But finding ways to cope is hard, and most self-help books just aren't written for nurses. If you're working 12-hour shifts, you barely have enough...
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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is...
18) Slow man: author
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, he returns to his bachelor's apartment, where he struggles with bouts of hopelessness, reluctantly adapts to his dependency on others, and finds himself falling in love.
Publisher
Learning Matters, an imprint of SAGE Publications Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It covers all the core skills, theory and knowledge that students will need to succeed in their first year nursing study. Research, academic and study skills Core clinical skills for effective practice Effective communication The biological science underpinning nursing
The book introduces the full range of nursing skills and knowledge including:
Using innovative activities, scenarios
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A Palliative Care Book of the Month: IAHPC (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care)
From a medical insider comes a plea to renew medicine's mandate to relieve suffering. The philosophy and practice of palliative care shows how this is possible by easing pain, by embracing the human side of illness, by inviting patients to be full participants in their care, and by incorporating the wisdom of these injured storytellers to guide...
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