Books about medicine and nursing for hospital staff and patients.
Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals
Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals
by Michael W. Perry
Series: Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 61,870.
Language:
English.
Published: December 1, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Women's health, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Children’s health
With needles, strangers, and embarrassing situations, hospitals can be scary places, particularly if you’re a teen girl. I can’t do anything about needles. That’s up to your doctor. But I can tell you how to change those strangers into friends and how to avoid that embarrassment with skill and tact. That’s because I cared for girls just like you at one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals.
My Nights with Leukemia: Caring for Children with Cancer
by Michael W. Perry
Series: Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 73,140.
Language:
English.
Published: August 22, 2013
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Children’s health, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Cancer
This is a moving and realistic look at what it was like to care for children with cancer, particularly leukemia, on night shift in the Hematology-Oncology unit at one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals.
Senior Nurse Mentor: Curing What Ails Hospital Nursing
by Michael W. Perry
Series: Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 43,530.
Language:
English.
Published: June 12, 2015
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Medicine » Nursing / management & leadership, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Medicine » Hospital administration & care
During the 1990s, every branch of the U.S. military created a new speciality to deal with morale. Based on experience at a major children's hospital, this book suggests that nursing needs a similar speciality, one employing the best of nurses and focusing on nursing morale. That position is the senior nurse mentor.