Nursing Illuminations: A Book of Days / Edition 1

by Patricia van Betten MEd, RN, Melisa Moriarty RN, BSN

Overview

Nursing Illuminations: A Book of Days is a daily reader written to rekindle all of the magnificent aspects of the nursing profession. This unique book describes the contributions of 366 nurses and addresses the history of nursing as well as the contemporary issues that nurses are facing. This depicts the similarities and bonds of nurses from the past and present through their causes, struggles and accomplishments.

• Stories of hope are offered to inspire nurses — despite the challenges they face because of the nursing shortage and demands on the health care system.
• Formatted as a daily reader, it provides a look into the life of a nurse for every day of the year.
• Each daily entry includes:
• Quotes that provide an opportunity for reflection about nursing leadership and scholarship.
• Descriptions that provide a "snap shot" of each nurse's contributions.
• A Biography with information about each nurse's background, education, achievements, and honors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323025843
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	11/21/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Read an Excerpt

May 12
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910
Florence Nightingale described her wisdom and vision of healing as "a lifelong journey toward harmony and balance - remembering what has been forgotten about connection, unity, and interdependence among all things living and nonliving."

"The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes - those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it - and those who wish for something better and try to create it."

Florence Nightingale was the mother of modern secular nursing. She was influenced by the humanitarian concerns, social reform efforts and the political activism of the adults she knew growing up. Throughout her life she skillfully applied political savvy and networking to make dramatic universal changes in healthcare. Florence Nightingale suffered from an obsessive sense of failure, depression, and the chronic effects of brucellosis she incurred while nursing in the Crimea.

Biography: Born 5/12/1820 in Florence, Italy. Education: Educated by father, other informal opportunities at home and abroad via contacts with social reformers, women achievers, scholars, philosophers, political leaders; Institution of Deaconess at Kaiserworth, Germany; studied nursing with Sisters of Charity, Paris. Other subheads that follow are Work History, Awards, where buried.

Table of Contents

Curve of Nursing History [graphic]

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Note to Reader

Foreword

Preface

"Santa Filomena" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

WINTER: January, February, March

SPRING: April, May, June

SUMMER: July, August, September

AUTUMN: October, November, December

Additional Biography, References, and Credits

Index of Featured Nurses

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

These inspiring stories remind readers that all nurses make a difference in the lives of everyone around them