You don't have to be a nurse to enjoy these 14 short stories drawn from situations I've encountered in my 40 yeear community health nursing career. The characters are fictionalized components of patients, families, and nurses I have known who are forced to meet overwheming life challenges.
Readers will meet Nadia, a Gentile who fought with the Polish Underground during WWII. After she immigrates to Detroit with her Polish husband, she struggles to adapt to the American way of life. The Detrot riots in 1967 throw her into an emotionall tail-spin, and she is hospitalized for post traumtic stress disorder.
Greg, an oncology nurse, loses his son in a boating accident and must come to terms with the after-effects of grief and guilt. Carletta, a high school student who lives in poverty in the inner-city, sells drugs to support her mother and two younger sisters. Kristen, a young married woman, lives a materialistic life style in an upper middle class neighborhood. Through her volunteer work, she learns she has more in common with inner-city women than she first realizes.
All the stories show the dynamics of family relationships and people's connections to the society at large. The overall focus of the book is on health--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and the challenges people overcome to make permanent changes in their lives.
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Readers will meet Nadia, a Gentile who fought with the Polish Underground during WWII. After she immigrates to Detroit with her Polish husband, she struggles to adapt to the American way of life. The Detrot riots in 1967 throw her into an emotionall tail-spin, and she is hospitalized for post traumtic stress disorder.
Greg, an oncology nurse, loses his son in a boating accident and must come to terms with the after-effects of grief and guilt. Carletta, a high school student who lives in poverty in the inner-city, sells drugs to support her mother and two younger sisters. Kristen, a young married woman, lives a materialistic life style in an upper middle class neighborhood. Through her volunteer work, she learns she has more in common with inner-city women than she first realizes.
All the stories show the dynamics of family relationships and people's connections to the society at large. The overall focus of the book is on health--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and the challenges people overcome to make permanent changes in their lives.
Nurses and Their Patients: Acts of Courage and Conviction
You don't have to be a nurse to enjoy these 14 short stories drawn from situations I've encountered in my 40 yeear community health nursing career. The characters are fictionalized components of patients, families, and nurses I have known who are forced to meet overwheming life challenges.
Readers will meet Nadia, a Gentile who fought with the Polish Underground during WWII. After she immigrates to Detroit with her Polish husband, she struggles to adapt to the American way of life. The Detrot riots in 1967 throw her into an emotionall tail-spin, and she is hospitalized for post traumtic stress disorder.
Greg, an oncology nurse, loses his son in a boating accident and must come to terms with the after-effects of grief and guilt. Carletta, a high school student who lives in poverty in the inner-city, sells drugs to support her mother and two younger sisters. Kristen, a young married woman, lives a materialistic life style in an upper middle class neighborhood. Through her volunteer work, she learns she has more in common with inner-city women than she first realizes.
All the stories show the dynamics of family relationships and people's connections to the society at large. The overall focus of the book is on health--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and the challenges people overcome to make permanent changes in their lives.
Readers will meet Nadia, a Gentile who fought with the Polish Underground during WWII. After she immigrates to Detroit with her Polish husband, she struggles to adapt to the American way of life. The Detrot riots in 1967 throw her into an emotionall tail-spin, and she is hospitalized for post traumtic stress disorder.
Greg, an oncology nurse, loses his son in a boating accident and must come to terms with the after-effects of grief and guilt. Carletta, a high school student who lives in poverty in the inner-city, sells drugs to support her mother and two younger sisters. Kristen, a young married woman, lives a materialistic life style in an upper middle class neighborhood. Through her volunteer work, she learns she has more in common with inner-city women than she first realizes.
All the stories show the dynamics of family relationships and people's connections to the society at large. The overall focus of the book is on health--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and the challenges people overcome to make permanent changes in their lives.
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| BN ID: | 2940015938111 |
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| Publisher: | Lois Gerber, RN, BSN, MPH |
| Publication date: | 11/08/2012 |
| Series: | Nursing in the Neighborhoods: Stories of Patients, Families, and Their Nurses , #2 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 6 MB |
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