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

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

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

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

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination

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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Lists

Breastfeeding in Fiction

62 books — 21 voters

A Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Doug Limbrick

Men who know their ladies.

59 books — 20 voters

Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Non-Fiction read in 2017

482 books — 109 voters

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Fictitious Australia

511 books — 136 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

123 books — 37 voters

Nightingale: Nurses in Romance

62 books — 31 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Nursing”

“ Why is it that the U.S. government doesn't reward public servants by allowing them to live tax-free? ...more ”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

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“ The hospital will never be healthy for patients if it's not a healthy environment for nurses, where their voices are heard and where they can care for their patients and use the full extent of their knowledge, abilities, and skills. After all, hospitals today have become one big intensive care unit: all patients need intensive caring. ...more ”
― Tilda Shalof

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