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.

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Nursing Books

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

A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit

The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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

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Death becomes him or her

128 books — 43 voters

Nightingale: Nurses in Romance

58 books — 30 voters

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Fictitious Australia

463 books — 116 voters

A Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin Hazzard

Compelling Medical Memoirs

372 books — 163 voters

Doctor/Medical Romance Heroines

432 books — 224 voters

Bhutan Travelog Edition 2 by Joni Herison

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543 books — 36 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Nursing”

“ Oh well, at least I'll get a 90 minute break until the next feed. That's when my lactation consultant delivered the real tit-punch. The every-90-minute stopwatch does not start from the end of one feeding. It starts from: the beginning. I've never been great at math but if you're supposed to feed a baby every 90 minutes from the moment they start eating, and the feeding takes 90 minutes, then you are feeding a baby every minute of every hour of every 24 hour day. If I could've fainted when I hea ...more ”
― Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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“ Many of us in healthcare entered the profession because we wanted to help, heal, and serve. At our core, we have compassion, empathy, and a drive to help people live their best lives. Recognizing and implementing actions to prevent patient and employee harm has the greatest potential effect on the quality of care delivered in our health care system, just as preventative care and wellness efforts slow or stop the progression of disease. ”
― Heidi Raines, Shared Voices: A Framework for Patient and Employee Safety in Healthcare

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