Author: Jack CanfieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1453279067
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This collection of true stories champions the daily contributions, commitments and sacrifices of nurses.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Nurses
Author: Amy NewmarkPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611592496
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
It isn’t often enough that nurses and other healthcare professionals hear the words, “thank you.” And now more than ever, you deserve to be recognized, which is why we’re offering this eBook for free. This collection of 101 heartwarming stories will encourage, inspire, and reassure you that it’s not only your patients and their families who appreciate your compassionate service, but our entire country. From the bottom of hearts, thank you. Every nurse can use a little pick-me-up these days, and this collection of personal stories will remind you why you became a nurse. All types of nurses share their experiences, their emotions, and even some great tips that will help you make a difference in the lives of patients and their families.
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough
Author: Suzanne GordonPublisher: ILR Press
ISBN: 0801458641
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by the award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advocacy isn't easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public. When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough brings together compelling personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad—and how they overcome them with skill, ingenuity, persistence, and individual and collective advocacy at work and in the community. In this collection, we meet RNs working at the bedside, providing home care, managing hospital departments, teaching and doing research, lobbying for quality patient care, and campaigning for health care reform. Their stories are funny, sad, deeply moving, inspiring, and always revealing of the different ways that nurses make their voices heard in the service of their profession. The risks and rewards, joys and sorrows, of nursing have rarely been captured in such vivid first-person accounts. Gordon and the authors of the essays contained in this book have much to say about the strengths and shortcomings of health care today—and the role that nurses play as irreplaceable agents of change.
Author: Jack CanfieldChicken Soup for the Soul: Living with Alzheimerâs & Other Dementias
Author: Amy NewmarkPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611599342
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Collects personal accounts from Alzheimer's patients and family members on their individual struggles, providing inspiring and uplifting tales of strength, treatment, and compassion. --
Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul
Author: Jack CanfieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145327491X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
'Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad. Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul takes a peak into the lives of fathers and sons, sharing the important male milestones from birth through childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, the senior years, and every step in between. This is a celebration of how fathers and sons carry each other along life's journey. Share the story of one man who didn't think much of becoming a father until the day he laid eyes on his son, and how in a matter of moments his perspective on life and being a dad had profoundly changed forever, and the touching story of a young boy who finds the father he always longed for in a special stepdad, as well as the story of the love and respect between a father-in-law and son-in-law that appears when least expected. Readers will be inspired by the stories of sons looking up to their fathers and learning by example, and fathers recollecting their own childhoods and relationships with their own dads. These insightful stories show men and boys working through the ups and downs of life, learning as they go and becoming better because of their relationship with each other. These powerful and poignant stories are written from every point of view—fathers, sons, grandfathers, mothers, and wives—everyone who has been deeply touched by the father and son relationship.
I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
Author: Lee GutkindPublisher: Underland Press
ISBN: 193716313X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first "sticks," first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps them in the profession. The stories reveal many voices from nurses at different stages of their careers: One nurse-in-training longs to be trusted with more "important" procedures, while another questions her ability to care for nursing home residents. An efficient young emergency room nurse finds his life and career irrevocably changed by a car accident. A nurse practitioner wonders whether she has violated professional boundaries in her care for a homeless man with AIDS, and a home care case manager is the sole attendee at a funeral for one of her patients. What connects these stories is the passion and strength of the writers, who struggle against burnout and bureaucracy to serve their patients with skill, empathy, and strength.
Chicken Poop for the Soul
Author: David FisherPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671014420
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Sometime late at night, when the house is quiet I can hear the familiar complaints of the friendly old floorboards stretching thier limbs, and the house iswarmed by love. I tiptoe into my four year old son's room and sit on the floor in a corner, and just watch him sleep.
Author: Jack CanfieldWhat It Means to Be a Nurse
Author: SnarkynursesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1507215347
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A lighthearted, inspiring, and timely look at the daily challenges and triumphs nurses face—all while reminding nurses exactly why they continue to work on the frontline. Being a nurse is not an easy task. From the endless hours battling COVID-19 to an often-times stressful work environment to those delightful patients who always insist they somehow know more than the medical professionals helping them—RNs everywhere know the struggle. What It Means to Be a Nurse takes an amusing look at some of the challenges these medical professionals face on a daily basis. Adding a laugh-out-loud spin that is both entertaining and relatable, this must-have book reminds nurses exactly why they love their hospitals, doctors, and patients, even on the tough days. With a heaping helping of humor and love, this book shares the inspiring and heartwarming stories that show us all why nurses are our heroes.
