Some good reading

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Can anyone recommend some good books about nursing, fiction or non?

All I get from a search on Amazon is "Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul" and drug reference guides. I'm looking for something that depicts the real lives of nurses.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

On another thread a nurse recently recommended this book and it lead me to others.

Nursing Against the Odds

by Suzanne Gordon.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

There two good books by Tilda Shalof.One is called " A Nurse's Story" and the other is called " The Making of a Nurse". She is a Canadian ICU nurse.and they are both great reads.

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Echo Heron's book. Starting from her experience in nursing school in the 1970's and then her career.

steph

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

House of God by Samuel Shem

While not nursing-related, it is healthcare-oriented and humorous.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

"Domina" by Barabra Woods is one of my all time favourite books. Its about a woman who becomes a doctor in the 1880's - very medically accurate.

"Vital Signs" by Barbara Woods is also good, so is "Soul Flame" - a woman healer in Egytian Times and "Green City in The Sun" - all by Barbara Woods.

My copy of Domina and Vital Signs was read by almost every nurse on one unit I worked on. People were signing up, waiting to borrow the book!

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele, ER.

"Nursing Against the Odds" by Susan Gordon (duh :lol2: see username)

I love Tilda Shalof's books as well.

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I like medical books period.

Atul Gawande is an excellent writer/physican. His book "Complications" is one of the best books I've ever read. I'm now reading his new book, "better; A Surgeon's Notes on Performance".

"The Woman With The Worm In Her Head" is an engrossing read about infectious diseases.

"Baby ER" is a very good book about the history of NICU.

"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Dow" by Anne Fadiman is about a Hmong child with seizures and the American Doctors who care for her and the collision of two cultures . . this is fascinating and sad.

I'd go look in the medical section of Barnes and Noble . . .I buy a new book there every couple of weeks.

steph

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele, ER.

I've also found books on the history of medicine fascinating. I really like to read about "what it was like before...". I saw a film recently about the first open-heart surgeons ("God's Own Hands"), made me cry like a baby. :lol2: It still irks me that physicians are glorified constantly in these things, but the history is interesting enough that I try to overlook it.

Oh yeah ... and if you're interested in midwifery at all read "Baby Catcher" - it was awesome.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele, ER.

I am so bookmarking this thread!

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Specializes in PICU.

its not about nursing, but stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers is a great book. makes one wonder about donating their body "to science."

i'm currently reading nurse by peggy anderson. its ok, not spactacular.

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its not about nursing, but stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers is a great book. makes one wonder about donating their body "to science."

i'm currently reading nurse by peggy anderson. its ok, not spactacular.

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stiff is a great and funny and weird book!

i read "nurse" too.

steph

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