Nurse Life

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.

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. 

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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments in this “brilliant” (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir. “This extraordinary book helps...

What happens when life hangs in the balance at 150 mph — and you're the only one who can save it? Operation Flight Nurse: Real-Life Medical Emergencies takes you inside the cockpit and the chaos of critical care transport. Written by David M. Kaniecki, DNP, APRN-CNP — a flight nurse practitioner with over 20 years of experience in emergency and critical care — this gripping collection of true stories reveals the life-or-death decisions that define flight nursing. Each chapter unfolds a real emergency: a massive heart attack mid-flight, a stroke racing against the clock, a trauma ...

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.

In March 1954, a letter with the crest of St Thomas’ Hospital arrived at a modest house in Kent. For twenty-one-year-old Mary West, it was the fulfilment of a promise made at her Aunt Annie’s bedside — and the beginning of a life she would ultimately choose over marriage, comfort, and convention. A Nurse’s Life for Me is the true story of one woman’s journey through the rigorous world of post-war British nursing. From the strict discipline of the Preliminary Training School at St Thomas’ — Florence Nightingale’s own hospital — to the delivery rooms of East London and the ...

“Two terrific female characters, both with secrets. Add Michael Robotham’s clean prose and whipcrack pacing. The result? A book you won’t be able to put down, although you may occasionally want to hide your eyes.” —Stephen King “A premium delivery.” —People Meghan doesn’t know...

From the chief medical correspondent of ABC News, an eloquent, heartbreaking, yet hopeful memoir of surviving the suicide of a loved one, examining this dangerous epidemic and offering first-hand knowledge and advice to help family and friends find peace. Jennifer Ashton, M.D., has witnessed...

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.

"This book is really riveting and I found myself grimacing, denying, experiencing shock and awe, nodding and finally understanding so much about her saga and attempts to protect her dying husband from one medical error after another. If you want a good read, pick up 108 Days." - Toni Brayer, MD. A patient’s true story. One woman’s 108-day fight inside Memorial Hermann Hospital — Texas Medical Center. When an explosive electrical accident leaves Curtis with severe burns covering 35% of his body, his wife Lisa takes up position at his bedside and refuses to leave. What she witnesses ...

More Confessions shares the raw and honest feelings of emergency service professionals through true "story behind the story" revelations. Disclosing experiences from both sides of the gurney, Sherry and other EMS, ER, paramilitary, and firefighter responders walk you along their fragile line of sanity. Using humor as a life raft during perfect storms, workers reflect upon how they endure and survive personal and professional tragedy while trying not to care too much, and what happens when they fail in that attempt.

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...

Compassionate Care: A Nurse Practitioner’s Guide to Hospice and Palliative Practices is an essential resource for advanced practice nurses, nursing students, and healthcare professionals dedicated to providing comfort, dignity, and holistic support during life’s most vulnerable moments. Written with both clinical expertise and heartfelt compassion, this guide offers a clear, evidence-based framework for delivering quality hospice and palliative care across diverse patient populations. Whether you are new to the field or seeking to deepen your practice, this book equips you with the ...

Echo Heron served for 18 years as a critical care nurse. In this book, she relates the true and riveting stories of nurses staff whose every-day experiences in the front line of medicine will inspire the listener.

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.

The pulse-pounding NUMBER ONE bestselling psychological thriller from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Valerie Keogh! 💥 If you love K. L. Slater and Freida McFadden you'll love this! 📚 Do No Harm… Bullied, overlooked and under-appreciated, Lissa McColl learns at an early age to do very bad things...

In this groundbreaking addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R.Gundry, MD offers a definitive guide to the gut biome and its control over its home—us!—revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to...

From bestselling author Ethan Hayes, author of series Encounters in the Woods and Fear in the Forest, comes a chilling collection of twenty first-person accounts from those who work while the rest of the world sleeps. A nurse repeatedly responds to a call light from an empty hospital room. A security guard watches a mysterious figure appear on surveillance cameras in a deserted building. A hotel employee hears footsteps coming from an unoccupied room. A dispatcher receives calls from a woman who may have died decades earlier. Throughout hospitals, warehouses, hotels, nursing homes, and ...

Elise Calder was not searching her husband's glove box for proof. She was looking for an insurance card when she found the BrightNest Baby receipt: crib, changing table, car seat, delivery fee, and a monogrammed blanket with a name she had never heard before. Lena Mae. Marcus said he had been working late. His family said nothing was wrong. But the receipt proves there is another household tucked inside Elise’s marriage. Another woman. A secret baby. A money trail Marcus never expected his wife to follow. Elise will not punish a child for adult lies. But she is done paying for them. The ...