Nurse Life

The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.

Bullied, overlooked and under-appreciated, Lissa McColl learns at an early age to do very bad things. As a nurse, she is respected and valued for the first time in her life. But Lissa hates her job and the selfish, rude and inconsiderate people she has to deal with. But being underestimated in this job had its advantages. Lissa can get close to people, find out their secrets… sometimes with deadly results.

"A burst of nostalgia not just for nurses, but for all lovers of the 1950s and 1960s." Cynthia O'Neill began her SRN training in 1956 at Hammersmith Hospital, London, at a time when a nurse was not expected to speak unless spoken to, and when nothing was disposable and everything needed scrubbed and sterilised before re-use. Items were always brought on a tray or trolley and more time seemed to be spent by a nurse polishing furniture and bedpans than caring for her patients. After achieving her SRN, Cynthia went on to do at Queen Charlottes and Thorpe Coombe hospitals In London, followed by...

Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions...

Dr. Gary Phillips, an inveterate and increasingly disenchanted emergency physician, reports for a busy night shift in the ER at a community hospital in Pittsburgh. On this frenetic evening, he attends many ill patients, encountering in each of them some facet of the Southside neighborhood and its once-promising, industrial past...or its current economic decline. Gritty, authentic, and hauntingly realistic, A Night in the Life is based on the author’s own experiences in a small, urban emergency department.

Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill's fifth-grade class has plans for you. They're going to speak up and work together to save their school.

Step into the silent halls, flickering lights, and whispered echoes of the night shift. In Ward Whispers, G.J. Fene presents a chilling collection of firsthand encounters from nurses, med-techs, and hospital staff who’ve experienced the unexplainable behind closed doors. From ghostly figures seen on routine rounds to mysterious patients who vanish before morning, these true accounts explore the thin boundary between medicine and the metaphysical. Told in raw, intimate first-person narratives, each story unveils a hidden side of hospital life, where not every discharge is permanent, and ...

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a hospital's cancer ward. In the span of 12 hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen.

This novella is part of the Extreme Measures series and comes after Life Flight. Flight Nurse Practitioner, Holly Cooper, has an enemy who wants her gone from the hospital one way or another. She and her fiancé, Detective Andy McKittrick are “taking a break”, and a patient has died under mysterious circumstances. Life is complicated at the moment so when she’s attacked, her friends—and “on hold” fiancé come to the rescue. Andy may have his issues, but he’s never stopped loving Holly. When he hears someone is out to get her, he races to her side. Can they find a killer before...

You didn’t start like this. But nursing changed you anyway. The Nurse Who Sees Too Much is not a burnout book. It’s a recognition book. This is for the nurse who notices everything now. Who can’t turn their brain off. Who scans rooms, people, exits, tone. Who jokes darker than they used to. Who feels more guarded, sharper, quieter and doesn’t know when that happened. This book names what nursing does to your mind without romanticizing it or minimizing it. Inside, you’ll find why: Normal stopped feeling normal Caring started to cost you Relaxing feels impossible Sleep doesn’t ...

The Naik sisters escaped their traumatic past in Mumbai to come to the States, but their journeys have been vastly different. Simi is working toward a bright future as a pediatric nurse in a small town in Kentucky when Rupi shows up at her door in distress, on the run, and as always, dragging trouble in her wake. With Rupi’s safety in jeopardy, the sisters hatch a desperate plan to keep her in the country: Rupi must get married—and fast—even if it means Simi recruiting the man she’s been secretly dating as her sister’s groom. A perfect plan? Not quite. But there aren’t many alternatives.

This book goes through the life of a person whose kidneys fail and what their options are. It also details of what happens in a hospital if you're there for 2 weeks.

Behind the Nurse’s Smile: a novel about burnout, blame, and the truth no wants in the report Ever worked a shift that broke you so hard you stopped recognizing your own face behind the mask? This isn’t another scrub-scented fairy tale — it’s the story nurses whisper to each other in supply closets because saying it out loud gets you written up. Behind the Nurse’s Smile drags the truth into the light and dares you to look. Through Callie — ICU nurse, mother, survivor, and the system’s favorite punching bag — you’ll see the unfiltered reality of “healthcare heroes” ...

Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. This audiobook details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, glimpsing into each stage personally and professionally.

"Operation Flight Nurse" offers a captivating glimpse into the high-stakes world of emergency and critical care transport. David Kaniecki, an experienced flight nurse practitioner, shares gripping firsthand accounts of life-altering medical crises, each paired with valuable takeaways for both healthcare professionals and the public. Through Kaniecki's interesting storytelling, readers will witness the intensity and urgency of transporting critically ill patients, while gaining a deeper understanding of the medical conditions and procedures involved. From heart attacks and strokes to rare ...

Sir Paul Nurse is one of Britain's greatest living scientists. Here he invites listeners on a journey of discovery of biology's five great building blocks including The Cell, The Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, Life as Information and then an inspiring piece on how we can change the world with this knowledge. Accessible and easy to listen to, Paul's engaging, personal tone will make listeners light up with excitement as they learn how all living beings are connected.

Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your...

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing...

""With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation—a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the unsettling ethical issues that haunt this miraculous lifesaving treatment. Mezrich's...

In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse. In Critical Care, Theresa writes powerfully and honestly about her first year on the hospital floor. With great compassion and a disarming sense of humor, she shares the trials and triumphs of her patients and comes to realize that caring for a patient means much more than simply treating a disease.