Has anyone read any good nursing books lately?

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i really like to read and i read lots of books, including nursing books.

i just finished reading the everything new nurse book , by: kathy quan. it was really insightful and gave good and practical info. you could only really get from a practicing and experienced nurse.

also, tilda shalof has written 2 great books about her experience as an icu nurse.

anyone else read anything good?

I just finished reading Bed Number Ten a few weeks ago, very insightful, written by a woman who had Guillain-Barre syndrome and was unable to speak and paralyzed for several months, requiring a prolonged hospital stay with many weeks in the ICU. She shares her experiences with good and bad nursing care. It's a real eye opener.

i'll have to pick that up, it sounds very interesting.

trauma junkie: memoirs of an emergency flight nurse by janice hudson.

Specializes in LDRP.
i really like to read and i read lots of books, including nursing books.

i just finished reading the everything new nurse book , by: kathy quan. it was really insightful and gave good and practical info. you could only really get from a practicing and experienced nurse.

also, tilda shalof has written 2 great books about her experience as an icu nurse.

anyone else read anything good?

have you read echo herons books about nursing school and her career as an icu/er nurse? i love them although they are getting kind of old! i will check out tilda shalof--hadnt heard of her. i love reading too and would like some more suggections. i have moved on to reading books about doctors because i havent found anything--haha. just finished "hot lights cold steel" and it was very good. it's about an orthopedic residents journey through med school. :monkeydance: then there are all the nursing/nursing student blogs i read (http://mediblogopathy.blogspot.com/ has a good list of those)!!! love them-they are addictive!

You know, I recently checked out one of Echo Heron's books from our local library and read about half of it. Some of the stories were entertaining, but I quickly lost interest in the genre. She clearly tells the reader in the beginning of the book that her stories are fabrications, collections of bits and pieces of stories she's heard from others, with some of her own experiences thrown in at times. I grew progressively more turned off by reading what sounds like a nurse writing about her first-hand experiences, while in reality she is just spinning some creative yarns (fiction).

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Have you read Echo Herons books about nursing school and her career as an ICU/ER nurse? I love them although they are getting kind of old! I will check out Tilda Shalof--hadnt heard of her. I love reading too and would like some more suggections. I have moved on to reading books about doctors because I havent found anything--haha. Just finished "Hot Lights Cold Steel" and it was very good. It's about an orthopedic residents journey through med school. :monkeydance: Then there are ALL the nursing/nursing student blogs I read (http://mediblogopathy.blogspot.com/ has a good list of those)!!! Love them-they are addictive!

Hehe I thought I was the only one who read the blogs on mediblogopathy. It's a great site, theres also a site like allnurses on there too which they just launched, won't name it since it's allnurses new competition.

tilda shalof's books are so good, but i think we here less about them here because she is canadian. her first book was a best seller. i also read a book called nurse written in the 60's- it was so funny reading about nurses who make $12,000.00 a year and smoking during rounds and how they thought nurses who wore gloves when emptying a colostomy bags were uppity. boy, times sure have changed (thank god!)!

[color=#00bfff]i also read some books by or for doctors, they can be interesting and applicable to us nurses. i joined the health professionals book club and have gotten a lot of great books from there, some however read just like text books and those have to go right back!

[color=#00bfff]well, keep me informed about any other books you all read and loved.

I just started reading Tilda Shalof's first book, A Nurse's Story. I also started reading How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School.

I'll have to check out some of the others suggested, thanks!

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