Nursing Fiction

Ellis Angels is the heartwarming story about the compassionate nurses of Ellis Island Hospital, the ladies-in-white, and the loving care they gave their immigrant patients. Ellis Island Hospital has been closed since 1954. When Superstorm Sandy bombarded New York Harbor in 2012, Ellis Island was left battered and flooded. During an extensive clean-up, a file cabinet was discovered in the long-abandoned, vacant hospital building. It was found to contain the files of a former Senior Nursing Superintendent. Filled with documentation of nursing procedures, notes, schedules, and pages from her ...

Nashville nursing student Paige McMillan only wanted to get over a cheating ex. But a few sinful hours with a tall, muscular bad boy left the good girl with a lifetime of responsibility - and no idea who her adorable daughter's father really is. Love him or hate him, hockey superstar Lance Couture makes no apologies for being the best - or for living life to its fullest. He's hot, rich, and girls can't get enough of him. Why would a player like him ever settle down? When a pro hockey team comes to town, Paige spots a familiar face in the most unlikely place: on the ice.

These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing. Nightingale covers such timeless topics as ventilation, noise, food, bed and bedding, light, cleanliness, and observation of the sick.

Jack lives with his girlfriend Mia in a big house near campus. Technically, it's in her mother's name, and she pays the lion's share of the rent so it's no surprise when she shows up to spend the weekend there, as Mia is going away on a mini vacation with her friends. Angela is recently divorced, and desperately in need of intimate touch. She also just so happens to have a thing for younger men, and struggles saying no because she's such a people pleaser. Jack's eyeballs fly out of his head when he sees her cleavage, and the starter pistol for the eye contact Olympics goes off while he ...

Mat is in the midst of a beer bender, dry spell, and existential dilemma all at once. He's 22, with dwindling savings, no job, and zero dating prospects. And then she moves in. A tall, busty redhead named Lauren. She's fifteen years older, freshly divorced, and has had her eye out for a younger man to seduce and corrupt. It's been months since she's been touched, and it's gotten to the point where she feels like she's going through physical withdrawals, and intimacy is all she can think about. The movers will be working all day, so she invites herself into Mat's apartment with the worst ...

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.

All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Best-selling author John Burke is no exception. In Imagine Heaven, Burke compares over 100 gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see friends and loved ones? What will heaven look like? What is God like? What will we do forever? What about children and pets?

Justin has been in love with Natasha for years, and there's nothing he can do about it. In his mind, she is the holy grail of all women, and he'd run headfirst through a brick wall just for a chance with her. He doesn't care that she's older than him, or his best friend's mother, as his devotion knows no bounds. Natasha is neglected, stressed, and deeply in need of a generous lover. When her house erupts into another epic fight with her husband, she can't take it anymore, and rushes straight into the arms of the one guy she can't stop thinking about. The Good Boy involves an older woman and...

Selah Awards Second Place Winner in Women's FictionInspirational Contemporary Women's Fiction from Award-winning Bestselling Author Carrie Fancett Pagels Lilac Cottage set on Mackinac Island, Book 2 Mackinac Cottages Series Out of options, Rachel Dunmara "camps out" at her deceased Grandmother's cottage on Mackinac Island. Next door, her childhood nemesis, Jack Welling, is overseeing his family's remodeling of their home on the West Bluff. When Rachel's new boss, at a local coffee shop, pushes her to work as Jack's assistant, for her second job, can they mend their rift? Kareen Parker, ...

This 7-Book Bundle contains the following HOT and steamy erotic taboo titles: Hucow Island Daddy's Innocent Hucow The Hucow Experiment The Accidental Hucow Daddy's Hucow Farm Baby, I'll Take Cream with That Giving Daddy a Milk Moustache These stories will have you creaming for joy, but only if you're over 18 years of age.

This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first "sticks", first births, and first deaths and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts and keeps them in the profession.

Bryce Rogers visits the doctor’s office when he becomes concerned about his frequent releases, and he’s shocked to discover that the doctor is none other than his friend’s mom! Maintaining her professionalism, Dr. Paul inspects him, witnessing his ailment firsthand as she ogles his growth. She’s intrigued and excited by Bryce’s eruptions and soon Bryce is finding a good home for them!

It’s 1992 and the Ellis Island Museum has been open for two years. Celestina, a retired nurse, is surprised to receive an invitation to give a brief oral history about her years living and working at Ellis Island Hospital. After her interview session is recorded, memories of caring for patients during the Great Depression and World War II come flooding to the surface. Her daughter Helena realizes this is only the tip of the iceberg and encourages her mother to continue recording her story. Celestina agrees and begins telling about the many challenges she faced as an immigrant ...

Is she beyond the reach of redemption? Jolene Spencer had been perplexed from the first mention of Micah Abrams. Why would a grown man uproot his life and move two states over at the urging of Jo’s momma? How did he and Ma even meet? And he’s raising a daughter by himself. Where is the child’s momma and how does she fit into his plans? When Jo first sees him standing on the front porch, staring like a deer caught in the headlights and seemingly unable to speak, she pegs him as a shy one. But then he walks in with a confident swagger and mingles with her family like he’s been there ...

The year is 1904. Nurse Clara Tyler happily spends her days tending patients in rural Ohio. Her brother, who is working in Panama on the great canal, informs the family he must return home due to illness. Too sick to travel alone, he begs Clara to come and get him. Anxious about going but determined to save her brother, Clara makes her way to the Canal Zone. She is quickly drawn into a web of heartbreak, controversy, and friendship that keeps her there. When her father demands she return, Clara must decide where she belongs in this gripping tale about love and loss, courage, and the ...

A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists. The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees—a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.

At nearly 90, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home, she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her 'room with a view' of the carpark, she dreams of escape. A fellow 'inmate', the gregarious would-be comedian Walter Clements, also plans on returning home as soon as he is fit and able to take charge of his mobility scooter.

Notes on Nursing is a classic by Florence Nightingale (the first modern nurse). Florence Nightingale's methods were revolutionary in her time, and they form the basis for the techniques of patient management that have been taught ever since. Notes on Nursing is a great overview, in her own words, of Florence Nightingale's ideas on care, cleanliness, and the nursing process in general. Her directives are widely applicable today. First published in 1860, Notes on Nursing served as the cornerstone of the curriculum at the Nightingale School and other nursing schools established.

In her second historical novel, Frances Ward turns to a new subject: the nineteenth-century origin of a School of Nursing at Harvard. What, she wonders, would have happened at a critical moment in American history if healthcare had been envisioned as something other than disease management? And what would have happened had nursing led the way to a new future in which health maintenance and disease prevention were at the center of the nation’s fastest growing industry? Emerging from the ashes of Civil War, the United States was fast immersing into a gilded age, with hospitals a shining ...

A new nurse's aide takes a job at the local nursing home and discovers that the old building holds many secrets. Stange noises and an old diary take her down the path of stories hidden long ago. The old hospital turned nursing home has seen its share of death and sadness but has it also seen a murder? Have the victims of the past moved on or are they still within its walls? What secrets do the silent nuns know?