Nursing America One Year Behind the Nursing Stations of an Inner-City Hospital

Name: Nursing America One Year Behind the Nursing Stations of an Inner-City Hospital
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ISBN: 9781585422814

ISBN-10: 1585422819

ISBN-13: 9781585422814

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sandy Balfour

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The world of nursing as seen through the prism of eight nurses' lives over the course of a year working at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Nursing is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States. What draws people to this most challenging of professions? And what is it like to return, day after day, to a place where lives hang in the balance? In Nursing America, Sandy Balfour describes the daily joy and discouragement, hope and despair experienced by eight nurses, each from one of the different specialty units of an inner-city hospital. "Nobody ever came to the hospital to see a nurse," points out one of the nurses in this book. Yet it is often the…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/3/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sandy Balfour plays and watches a lot of cricket. In his spare time he is a journalist, author and social activist. He is chair of the UK's leading Fairtrade chocolate company and has written four previous books including the critically acclaimed Vulnerable in Hearts and Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8). He lives in London with his girlfriend and their three children.