NURSE: A World of Care |  | Authors: Peter Jaret, Photographs by Karen Kasmauski, Senior Editor~ Marla Salmon, Foreword by Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Emory University
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0981456502
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Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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To care. To advocate. To innovate. To be a nurse. In a moving tapestry of words and photographs, Nurse: A World of Care, documents and celebrates the vital and often invisible work of nurses throughout the globe. The many faces and voices of nurses are captured in compelling detail by photographer Karen Kasmauski and writer Peter Jaret. Together they paint an unforgettable and varied portrait of the profession, from the nurse midwives who walk long distances to deliver basic health care in the remote villages of Bangladesh, to the Alaska public health nurse who lives out of a sleeping bag to reach her patients, to the Thai hospice nurses who comfort and care for patients with AIDS. Nursing requires expertise, ingenuity, and a deep sense of compassion. Like the profession it celebrates, this book appeals to both hearts and minds. Around the world, health care delivery systems are in crisis. In the poorest places, millions of people lack access to even the most basic care. In the world s prosperous nations, the soaring cost of advanced medicine has begun to exact a crippling strain on budgets. High-tech medicine saves lives, but it has also led to impersonal health care systems that leave many patients feeling confused and sometimes abandoned. Shortages of nurses, meanwhile, have left rural clinics and state-of-the-art hospitals alike dangerously understaffed. Nursing itself is rising to the challenge. Innovative programs, many of them created by nurses, offer solutions to the most pressing problems we face. As this book powerfully argues, nursing is critical to delivering health care in every corner of the world. Nurses are there when life begins and when it ends offering expertise, comfort, and care. Only by recognizing and supporting their work can we hope to heal our ailing health care systems and ensure that nurses will continue to be there when we need them most.
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thoughful and evocative February 25, 2009
Joe Niemczura (Honolulu Hawaii)
Wonderful pictures, shwoing the depth and breadth of what nurses do, around the world. The photos are fomr a person who has been published in National Geographic, and of comparable quality. the text is inspiring.
WOW!
Inspirational Book September 7, 2008
Maureen E. Connelly (New York, New York)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book tells in both words and pictures the life of a nurse. It shows the profession across the world.....it shows the best qualities of humanity and inspires the reader to find the best of himself or herself within.......whether or not you are in the nursing profession.
Proof of the wonderful profession I chose July 17, 2008
K. Susan Cockriel
As a nurse, it was a wonderful and inspiring read. I will pass it on to my 2 daughters and a grand daughter that are nurses. It told about the compassion that we as nurses have regardless of status, color or ethnic and religous background. It made me feel that we, as nurses, could wipe out a lot of pain and suffering throughout the world if only funds were available.
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