Reading Recommendations?

Does anyone have any books that they could recommend to inform or inspire new nursing students? Anything you think are "must-reads"? Just curious...

[raynefall]

Originally posted by danaRN2b

Does anyone have any books that they could recommend to inform or inspire new nursing students? Anything you think are "must-reads"? Just curious...

I'm not sure if this will inspire you or make you run the other way, but I highly recommend reading Echo Heron's books.

[marilynmom, LPN, NP]

I second Echo Herons books, they are all great!

I also liked The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in An American Hospital by Samuel Shem

Right now I am reading 'When the Air Hits Your Brain' and its good.

I have heard that the book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman is excellent as well.

Echo Herons books are specific to nursing (and excellent) but I also enjoy reading books about the medical world in general.

Marilyn

[danaRN2b]

Thank you to you both, I'll look into those!!

[RNIAM, BSN, RN]

This might sound silly but for short bursts of enthusiasm you might try. Chicken soup for the nurses soul. Not terribly deep but certainly motivating. I will check out these other books all of you have suggested. I do love to read and after graduation I just might have time once again.:)

[nursepearl]

well lets see there are a many i have read to keep myself going in nursing school. If you are thinking about the NICU i would say baby ER by Edward Humes. For general nursng there are many but i like... Life support by Suzanne Gordon, echo's books are great. For ER stories i like Emergency by Mark brown and just here trying to save a few lives by Pamela Grim. There is also how to survive and maybe even love nursing school by Kelli S. Dunham...which is great.

So there are tons of books and I sure a lot of the can be purchased used at half.com

Happy reading!

Pearl

[danaRN2b]

Originally posted by nursepearl

. For ER stories i like Emergency by Mark brown and just here trying to save a few lives by Pamela Grim.

nursepearl,

I read Emergency a few weeks ago & am reading the Pamela Grim one right now!! I'll look up all the others mentioned, too. Thanks for your recommendations.

[RN 2005]

I was thinking of buying The Anatomy of Hope : How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman......has anyone read this one yet? There was an excerpt in Parade magazine a few weeks ago and it peaked my interest. Would love to hear some feedback from someone who may have read it!!

[Louisepug]

"Nurse" by Peggy Anderson was pretty good. Seemed a little outdated but it was a beautiful compassionate story of human life. It helped inspire me.:) Louisepug

[NursinTig]

I would also recomend "Nurse", very inspiring to a new nursing student (like myself). I enjoyed "Baby Catcher", which is about a Nurse-Widwife. I also just recently finished "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" and thought it was excellent. Not about nursing, but the patient stories and the look at the field of medicine itself are very interesting!

[unknown99, BSN, RN]

Actually, I have 2 books that I keep handy.

The first one was recommended by my instructor, and is awesome. It is NOTES ON NURSING: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT by Florence Nightingale.

The second is ON CALL: A Devotional for Nurses by Lois Rowe.