Nursing

Nursing is the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm. It is a profession within the health care sector which is focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, and/or recover optimal health and quality of life.


The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
From Air (Wildfire, #1)
Just Say Yes
When You Blush (The Blackwells of Montana, #4)
The Nurse
My Unexpected Surprise (The Greene Family, #5)
Whispers at Painswick Court
Stay Over (Kincaid Brothers, #1)
E.R. Nurses
The Surprise (Single in Seattle, #1.5)
Southern Heart (Southern, #5)
The Edge of Chaos (The Edge #4)
Can We Try? (Everlasting Ink, #5)
Sisters of the Great War
The War Nurse
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology)
I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit
The Women
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
Intensive Care * The Story Of A Nurse
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The HIPUS® Revolution by Mark SorensenThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootDoctors by Erich SegalCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseStill Alice by Lisa Genova
Best Books with a Medical Setting.
424 books — 224 voters
The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk by Diana WestThe Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League InternationalThe Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle  PalmerMother Food by Hilary JacobsonTo Three and Beyond by Janell E. Robisch
Breastfeeding
29 books — 12 voters

Brad's Dairy Farm by Moira T. MooreAgainst Her Will by Carolyn FaulknerHis Favorite Hucow by Dark AngelAllison's Training by Jennifer      CampbellGeneration Stables by Carolyn Faulkner
Best Hucow Erotica
67 books — 18 voters
The Midwife by Jennifer WorthWe Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. NormanAnd If I Perish by Evelyn M. MonahanLife Support by Suzanne GordonA Nurse's Story by Tilda Shalof
Real Nurses
242 books — 60 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
History of Medicine
362 books — 169 voters
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Every Man, Woman and Child
1,749 books — 113 voters


Vera Brittain
“ Four impressionable years spent in a number of very different hospitals convinced me once for all that nursing, if it is to be done efficiently, requires, more than any other occupation, abundant leisure in colorful surroundings, sufficient money to spend on amusements, agreeable food to re-establish the energy expended, and the removal of anxiety about illness and old age; yet of all skilled professions, it is still the least vitalised by these advantages, still the most oppressed by unnecessar ...more ”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

“ It’s hard, isn’t it? But it was always drummed into us during training that the patients and their families are the absolute priority. And our own feelings come way down the list. ”
― Kate Eastham, Changing Seasons for the Country Nurse

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