January 1918. Laura Iven was a field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie's death, but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. November 1917. Freddie Iven finds himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier....

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes...

Collects the stories of nurses at all stages of their careers as they discuss their experiences and their profession.

"For thousands of years, nurses have tended to the sick and the wounded. Although they don't get the glory, nurses are just as important as doctors. Read all about the eventful history of nursing and marvel at how nurses today take care of us in the hospital or at home, comfort relatives, cheer us up when we have to stay in bed, and help us make a complete recovery, "--Back cover.

It's another scary day at the Black Lagoon. . . . There's supposed to be a nurse at school, but no one has ever seen her. She's supposed to be a real ghoul! They say she uses a thermometer the size of a flagpole and a surfboard for a tongue depressor! They say that she gives students eye tests and if you don't pass, she uses your eyeballs for billiard balls! Hubie swears to never go see the school nurse...until he gets sick at school one day!

Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher has abruptly reappeared in nurse Jenny Bennett's life at the Presidio army base, but he's in an impossible situation. Six years ago he accepted a government mission overseas that caused his reputation to be destroyed and broke her heart. Honor bound never to reveal where he had been during those years, he can't tell Jenny the truth or it will endanger an ongoing mission and put thousands of lives at risk. When a threat from...

"Dr. Hong-Wei Wu has come to Copper Point, Wisconsin, after the pressures of a high-powered residency burned him out of his career before he started. Ashamed of letting his family down after all they've done for him, he plans to live a quiet life as a simple surgeon in this tiny northern town. His plans, however, don't include his outgoing, kind, and attractive surgical nurse, Simon Lane. Simon wasn't ready for the new surgeon to be a handsome charmer...

Red Cross nurse Nina Borg is drawn into Copenhagen's brutal underworld when she becomes the unwitting caretaker of a three-year-old boy who may be a victim of child trafficking.

As death approaches, both patient and family must cope with grief, pain, and seemingly unanswerable questions. It's a time of challenge, of concerns. But, as hospice nurse Karen Whitley Bell reminds us, it also offers an opportunity to explore and rediscover the fuller, richer meaning of life. Drawing on her years of experience, Bell has created a comprehensive, insightful guide to every aspect of hospice care and the final stages of life. She discusses...

Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable vocation. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming...