Any Good Nursing Book Suggestions?

MacNurse · Jun 16, 2005

Trauma Junkie Janice Hudson...not a bad read about a flight nurse...

MS._Jen_RN, ASN, RN · Jun 16, 2005

I have a few:

Over My Head - Claudia Osborn - Real life story of a Doc who sustained a head injury and her trails in rehab.

Bed Number Ten- True story of a woman who contracted Guillian Barre. Follows her through ER, ICU, Step-down and Rehab. Gives a really good perspective of the patient side of things.

Midwives- a lay-midwife and her practice go to trail for a delivery gone bad. Told from the perspective of her daugther.

~Jen :nurse:

evans_c1 · Jun 16, 2005

I read "The woman who swallowed a toothbrush". It is an awesome book for anyone interested in those unbelievable but true medical stories.

JacqueOCS · Jun 20, 2005

Thanks so much for the replies . I'm in the process of trying to find the books now.

Hugs,

Jacque

Keely-FutureRN · Jun 20, 2005

I also read "Bed Number 10" and it was a really good book :) I also recommended a book called Nurses : Doctors don't keep you alive, I do. I can't remember the author but it's really good. I also like "Stiff" the secret life of human cadavers.....hmmmm. Just some suggestions...

Keely

SmilingBluEyes · Jun 20, 2005

Anything by Echo Herron.

begalli · Jun 21, 2005

Anything by Echo Herron.

I'm reading a book by Echo Heron right now (it's funny you spell her last name wrong as she makes it a point in the book to correct those who spell her last name with two r's. :) ).

I'm not that impressed with it. The title of the book I'm reading is Intensive Care The Story of a Nurse. Maybe it's because I'm only half way through and she's just coming off the "student nurse idealizes everything then reality hits thing?" I find that only about a fourth of the book is actually realistic, but then again, the book was written in 1987 - so what do I know, I wasn't a nurse then?

Anyway, that's my thought on that one. I'll finish it, but it's terribly boring at times and for some reason I just can't picture 3 student nurses jumping on a patient (one holding onto each leg and one on his back) as he tries to leave AMA or a student nurse left completely alone in the ED and totally responsible for everything that happens with that patient.

Hyperbole. That's it!!

I'll check out some of the suggestions here.

begalli · Jun 21, 2005

I also read "Bed Number 10" and it was a really good book :) I also recommended a book called Nurses : Doctors don't keep you alive, I do. I can't remember the author but it's really good. I also like "Stiff" the secret life of human cadavers.....hmmmm. Just some suggestions...
Keely

These all sound good.

The cadaver one....does it take you through how they became cadavers?

Just wondering as I almost bought that one last week, but I bought the Echo Heron book instead.

mdfog10 · Jun 21, 2005

anything by Suzanne Gordon---

From Silence to Voice,

Nursing against the odds

etc

LPN_mn · Jun 21, 2005

My kids bought me Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul. Not a very long book but lots of great stories from other nurses.

BabyRN2Be · Jun 21, 2005

I can't say it enough... anything by Echo Heron. She is such an awesome writer. I've heard her fiction isn't as good as her "real life" books. I wish that her publishers would look at her new morificecripts. A description of her new morificecripts can be found at http://www.echoheron.com.

The only thing is the website doesn't seem to get updated too much.

If you have a touch of CNM in you, you can't go wrong with Peggy Vincent's

"Baby Catcher." That's one book I couldn't put down while on vacation. I remember sitting in the tent reading it on an Iowa farm in August. It was so nice... me, by myself, listening to the wind rustle through the corn and trees, it was so peaceful. I was in the tent reading Baby Catcher... perfect!

Too bad I won't be able to go to Iowa this year. :sniff: