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.


The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
From Air (Wildfire, #1)
Whispers at Painswick Court
The Nurse
The Edge of Chaos (The Edge #4)
Stay Over (Kincaid Brothers, #1)
Southern Heart (Southern, #5)
Can We Try? (Everlasting Ink, #5)
My Unexpected Surprise (The Greene Family, #5)
Just Say Yes
The Woman with a Purple Heart
E.R. Nurses
The Surprise (Single in Seattle, #1.5)
The War Nurse
Euro Dreams
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 Women
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
Intensive Care * The Story Of A Nurse
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
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
467 books — 120 voters
War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
257 books — 464 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
479 books — 85 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe World According to Garp by John IrvingThe End of Miracles by Monica Starkman
Nurses
311 books — 81 voters
Wilderness Nurse by Marguerite Mooers MarshallThe Nurse and the Pirate by Peggy DernNurse Kathy by Adeline McElfreshNurse Craig by Isabel CabotThe Listening Nurse by Peggy Dern
Vintage Nurse Romance Novels
197 books — 8 voters


Florence Nightingale
The very first element for having control over others is, of course, to have control over oneself. If I cannot take charge of myself, I cannot take charge of others. The next, perhaps, is—not to try to "seem" anything, but to be what we would seem. A person in charge must be felt more than she is heard—not heard more than she is felt. She must fulfil her charge without noisy disputes, by the silent power of a consistent life, in which there is no seeming, and no hiding, but plenty of discretion. ...more
Florence Nightingale, Florence Nightingale - To Her Nurses

Romalyn Ante
Jump there with me - on top of the stretcher, the man between your legs, your hands pumping his heart. Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slopes in corridors. It is only turbulence.
Romalyn Ante, Antiemetic for Homesickness

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