the field of nursing, both as a formal discipline as it is recognized now as well as caregiving and "women's work."
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
Theresa Brown
Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia
Melanie Beals Goan
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Charles Graeber
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
Intensive Care * The Story Of A Nurse
Echo Heron
A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit
Tilda Shalof
Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
Holly Bellebuono
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
Mary Cronk Farrell
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill
Michael Ortiz Hill
Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School
Jim Kristofic
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
Christie Watson
Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk
Sandy Summers
Cooked: An Inner City Nursing Memoir
Carol Karels
Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism
Susan Gelfand Malka
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
Evelyn M. Monahan
Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
Sarah DiGregorio
Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History
Claire Laurent
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Barbara Ehrenreich
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology)
Florence Nightingale
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing
Nessa Coyle
Critical Resilience for Nurses: An Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS
Michael Traynor
American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work
Patricia D'Antonio
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
Alexandra Robbins
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios
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