Despite training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown found it difficult to navigate the medical maze when she learned she had breast cancer. Her experience shows how our for-profit health-care industry may "cure" us but at the same time leaves so many of us feeling alienated and uncared for. -- adapted from jacket

"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...

"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, #1 bestselling coauthors of Walk in My Combat Boots, powerfully present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. nurses. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From...

"The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam's mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Bihar-a...

A nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served in war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan aiding refugees, Gately knows just the word refugee sparks conversation and fuel emotion. Here she shares the real stories of refugees around the world in hopes of revealing the truth about their experience. She begins where the newscasters end their reports, showing that refugees are neither all saints nor all sinners-- and impossible to forget.--Adapted...

"Lippincott Review for NCLEX-PN , 12E is designed to help pre-licensure nursing students in practical and vocational nursing programs prepare to take the licensing examination. More than 2,000 questions span all areas of nursing practice. Sixteen specialty tests contain questions across all the Client Need categories of the NCLEX-PN. A two-part Comprehensive Examination contains 261 items-- more than the maximum of 205 questions asked on the NCLEX-PN-to...

"When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographers, has written the first complete...

The NCLEX-PN exam tests how you'll apply the medical knowledge you've gained in real-life situations. In NCLEX-PN Prep Plus 2018, Kaplan's all-star nursing faculty teaches you 9 critical thinking pathways to help you break down what exam questions are asking. Six chapters end with practice sets to help you put these critical thinking principles into action