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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Nursing"

No, Don't Ever Stop (The Billionaires of Boston)

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My Unexpected Surprise (The Greene Family, #5)

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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

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

Death becomes him or her

138 books — 47 voters

We Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman

Real Nurses

241 books — 59 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

125 books — 35 voters

Women During War

221 books — 38 voters

GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS by Scott L. Nelson

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

This is the.......life

1,188 books — 83 voters

Wilderness Nurse by Marguerite Mooers Marshall

Vintage Nurse Romance Novels

198 books — 9 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Nursing”

“ Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth. ...more ”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

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“ I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing. ”
― Lisa Kessler, Harvest Moon

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