Answering the Call: Nurses of Post 122, allows readers to delve into, and better understand nurses´roles in the Pacific, European, and the China-Burma-India Theaters during World War II, the Korean, and the Vietnam War. Using a combination of nursing skills, compassion, and self-discipline, these brave women saved lives and comforted the dying.

     Nurses signed for duty wearing their best dresses and stockings. They came forward to serve, as their brothers had. Some enlisted looking for adventure and a paying job, all came to answer the call of their country. Each nurse who served did so voluntarily, and each found that her life was forever changed.

     Nurses found a world of tent hospitals and bombed out buildings. Many slept in rat infested living quarters in the tropics. Some struggled to stay warm in Alaska. Others sweltered in the New Guinea heat.

     The Nurses of Post 122 traded high heels for combat boots, dresses for uniforms, and learned to hold on tighter to helmets than they ever had to their pocketbooks.

      Answering the Call: Nurses of Post 122, allows readers to delve into, and better understand nurses´roles in the Pacific, European, and the China-Burma-India Theaters during World War II, the Korean, and the Vietnam War. Using a combination of nursing skills, compassion, and self-discipline, these brave women saved lives and comforted the dying.

     Nurses signed for duty wearing their best dresses and stockings. They came forward to serve, as their brothers had. Some enlisted looking for adventure and a paying job, all came to answer the call of their country. Each nurse who served did so voluntarily, and each found that her life was forever changed.

     Nurses found a world of tent hospitals and bombed out buildings. Many slept in rat infested living quarters in the tropics. Some struggled to stay warm in Alaska. Others sweltered in the New Guinea heat.

     The Nurses of Post 122 traded high heels for combat boots, dresses for uniforms, and learned to hold on tighter to helmets than they ever had to their pocketbooks.

Emergency! Diary of a Triage Nurse is one nurse's observations of life in the emergency department of a county hospital in the Bay area of San Francisco, California. A triage nurse in this case means frontline for whoever walks in the lobby doors requesting to see a doctor. The action is different from what comes through the ambulance doors and from what we see on television.

Emergency! Diary of a Triage Nurse is one nurse's observations of life in the emergency department of a county hospital in the Bay area of San Francisco, California. A triage nurse in this case means frontline for whoever walks in the lobby doors requesting to see a doctor. The action is different from what comes through the ambulance doors and from what we see on television.

This book is a letter to my friends who had expressed interest in majoring in nursing at the local college where they lived. Most of them had graduated from college in a different field, and had been struggling for years to find employment in their respective chosen disciplines.The book detailed my experiences and experiences of my nursing colleagues both during our college days and after graduation from college. It would have been easier to tell my friends to enter the nursing profession because of the shortages and because it offers fruitful employment, but I chose to let them decide for themselves. Nursing school was not easy. The program was difficult and more strenuous than that of medical school. The program instructors were like werewolves. They were not easy to please. The nursing students were treated with disrespect and indignity. The assignments were extremely difficult. The method of teaching and learning were different from that of high school. A student has to be exceptionally careful, humble, and determined to be all he or she could be to graduate. After graduation, there were other difficulties such as intimidations, abuse, and threats from colleagues, patients, their families, friends, and other disciplines. However, as a nurse, there are un-comparable rewards that we often enjoy such as the thank you that we receive from patients, and the smiles and the joy of savings stranger’s life.I am a nurse and I am proud to be a nurse. I would not trade it for any other profession. I wanted my friends to see the world of nursing through the eyes of a nurse and make up their mind to see if they are nursing materials.

This book is a letter to my friends who had expressed interest in majoring in nursing at the local college where they lived. Most of them had graduated from college in a different field, and had been struggling for years to find employment in their respective chosen disciplines.The book detailed my experiences and experiences of my nursing colleagues both during our college days and after graduation from college. It would have been easier to tell my friends to enter the nursing profession because of the shortages and because it offers fruitful employment, but I chose to let them decide for themselves. Nursing school was not easy. The program was difficult and more strenuous than that of medical school. The program instructors were like werewolves. They were not easy to please. The nursing students were treated with disrespect and indignity. The assignments were extremely difficult. The method of teaching and learning were different from that of high school. A student has to be exceptionally careful, humble, and determined to be all he or she could be to graduate. After graduation, there were other difficulties such as intimidations, abuse, and threats from colleagues, patients, their families, friends, and other disciplines. However, as a nurse, there are un-comparable rewards that we often enjoy such as the thank you that we receive from patients, and the smiles and the joy of savings stranger’s life.I am a nurse and I am proud to be a nurse. I would not trade it for any other profession. I wanted my friends to see the world of nursing through the eyes of a nurse and make up their mind to see if they are nursing materials.

Suzanne Zaccone, one of America´s most influential entrepreneurs, strips naked with a feisty and clear-eyed story of how she loses her breast and fights to get it back. Zaccone writes with an iron grip on the details, and reveals the secrets of cancer patients that are taboo and lost in translation. A Random Interruption is equipped with a dictionary of the language of breast cancer and a list of provocative questions to ask the doctors. World-renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. David Song adds a medical perspective to the book with a “Doctor’s Corner.” Raw and unflinching, Zaccone’s story is the stuff of other women’s lives—of mothers and daughters and sisters, and of the sisterhood that forms when women are united in battle against a common enemy. Dense, atmospheric and written with spectacular wit and style, A Random Interruption is a literary tour de force. All proceeds from this book will go to the Breast Cancer Center at the University of Chicago.

Suzanne Zaccone, one of America´s most influential entrepreneurs, strips naked with a feisty and clear-eyed story of how she loses her breast and fights to get it back. Zaccone writes with an iron grip on the details, and reveals the secrets of cancer patients that are taboo and lost in translation. A Random Interruption is equipped with a dictionary of the language of breast cancer and a list of provocative questions to ask the doctors. World-renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. David Song adds a medical perspective to the book with a “Doctor’s Corner.” Raw and unflinching, Zaccone’s story is the stuff of other women’s lives—of mothers and daughters and sisters, and of the sisterhood that forms when women are united in battle against a common enemy. Dense, atmospheric and written with spectacular wit and style, A Random Interruption is a literary tour de force. All proceeds from this book will go to the Breast Cancer Center at the University of Chicago.

The purpose of this tool, the Nursing Communication Observation Tool (NCOT), is to assist you as an observer in collecting and analyzing data about interpersonal communications. It is patterned after the work of Robert Freed Bales of the Center for the Behavioral Sciences at Harvard University and designed for observing any interpersonal communication occurring in nursing practice contexts in which you, as a nurse, interact with your clients, peers, leaders, and colleagues of nursing and other health care professions.

As a member of the governing board, administrator, or educator in a health care agency, you are responsible for helping nurses to establish holistic care. A plan is offered based on theories, supporting research, and the study of spirituality in healing. This is not to be considered the final answer, but to provide one perspective which may serve as a common basis for developing a coordinated plan most appropriate to your agency’s situation.

The purpose of this tool, the Nursing Communication Observation Tool (NCOT), is to assist you as an observer in collecting and analyzing data about interpersonal communications. It is patterned after the work of Robert Freed Bales of the Center for the Behavioral Sciences at Harvard University and designed for observing any interpersonal communication occurring in nursing practice contexts in which you, as a nurse, interact with your clients, peers, leaders, and colleagues of nursing and other health care professions.

The purpose of this book is to present cohesive, introductory information, drawn from the disciplines of speech communication, interpersonal communication, and nursing. It is proposed by the author to establish a benchmark of holistic and humanizing theoretical orientation for interpersonal communication between nurses, clients and others which is appropriate in all areas of nursing practice, education and research.

The author’s purpose is to address the issue of establishing the nursing practice of holistic care in hospitals and similar health care agencies as well as in educational programs. The theory of spiritual care for nursing is offered to provide guidance and structure to this effort. Incorporating spirituality into one’s own nursing practice or for the entire nursing staff at an agency is probably a most pressing and intangible task facing nursing today. This text is not the fi nal answer, but is offered to provide one perspective that may provide direction for an ecumenical approach and serve as a theoretical guide for nurse educators in teaching spiritual care to nursing students as well as for nursing leaders and their nursing staff in developing a plan of implementation appropriate to an individual agency.

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The author’s purpose is to address the issue of establishing the nursing practice of holistic care in hospitals and similar health care agencies as well as in educational programs. The theory of spiritual care for nursing is offered to provide guidance and structure to this effort. Incorporating spirituality into one’s own nursing practice or for the entire nursing staff at an agency is probably a most pressing and intangible task facing nursing today. This text is not the fi nal answer, but is offered to provide one perspective that may provide direction for an ecumenical approach and serve as a theoretical guide for nurse educators in teaching spiritual care to nursing students as well as for nursing leaders and their nursing staff in developing a plan of implementation appropriate to an individual agency.