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Books by Nurse Authors
These books have been reviewed in Donna’s
monthly e-newsletter Nursing Connections™.
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101 Global Leadership Lessons for Nurses: Shared Legacies From Leaders and Their Mentors
Nancy Rollins Gantz, RN, MSN, PhD, MBA, NE-BC, MRCNA, editor
This book covers challenges that face healthcare leaders, such as — communications, negotiations, resource management, and work-life balance. |
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Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life
Mary Jane Nealon
In this memoir, Nealon tells how her younger brother's diagnosis with a rare form of cancer shaped her nursing career. |
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A Daybook for Beginning Nurses NEW
Donna Cardillo, RN, MA
This perpetual daybook offers 365 motivating tips and quotes from the bestselling author and speaker. |
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Daybook for Nurses: Making a Difference Each Day
Sharon Hudacek, RN, EdD
A Daybook for Nurses features daily quotations, stories, poems,
and inspirational thoughts especially for nurses. |
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Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses
Cynthia Saver, RN, MS
This comprehensive, up-to-date book for nurses covers everything from generating an idea to the different types of writing. |
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And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
And If I Perish tells the story of Army nurses who served in the war against Germany. |
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A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting: Skills for Nurse Managers
KT Waxman, RN, MBA
A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting breaks down the confusing financial side of healthcare so that nurse managers can get the job done.
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Assumed Dead
Eleanor Sullivan, RN
A nurse sleuth solves mysteries that crop up in a hospital ICU. |
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Care of the Difficult Patient: A Nurse's Guide
Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun
This guide to dealing with difficult patients was cowritten by a doctor and a nurse. |
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The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered
Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon
The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered is a book of essays linked by a central theme: The reputation of the nurse as an angelic caregiver trivializes the expertise and demands required for the work. |
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Cooked: An Inner City Nursing Memoir
Carol Karels, RN
A suburban teen attends nursing school at a tough inner-city, public hospital. |
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Critical Care
Candace Calvert
A nurse trying to make a fresh start at a small hospital finds herself first clashing with and then falling for a compelling ED doc in this medical/Christian romance. |
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Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
Theresa Brown
An oncology nurse details her first year on the job. |
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Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care
Alan Briskin, PhD, and Jan Boller, RN, PhD
For two years, a group of nurse leaders at a community hospital came together to discuss ideas about caring and compassion. Daily Miracles was the result. |
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Dressed to Keel
Candy Calvert
A murder mystery aboard a cruise ship with ER nurse sleuth Darcy Cavanaugh. |
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Does Change Have To Be So H.A.R.D.? RED
Julie Donley, RN
This book explains how your thinking creates the obstacles to change and gives eight strategies needed for making the changes you want. |
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Eat THAT Cookie! Make Workplace Positivity Pay Off...For Individuals, Teams, and Organizations NEW
Liz Jazwiec, RN
An ED nurse explains how to create a positive workforce in negative times. |
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For Your e-Reader NEW
Suggestions for e-readers, including Mosby's 2012 Nursing Drug Reference, Portable RN: The All-in-One Nursing Reference, Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention, and Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915. |
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Entrepreneuring:
A Nurse’s Guide to Starting a Business, 2nd Ed.
Gerry Vogel, RN, MSN, and Nancy Doleysh, RN, MSN
This primer for the nurse entrepreneur covers all the basics, including
identifying your entrepreneurial potential, finding a niche, starting
a business, marketing a nursing business, financing your business,
and surviving and growing in business. |
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The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
Courtney Davis
This inspirational collection of essays showcases the joys, fears, and intimacies shared by a nurse and her patients. |
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Health Matters: A Pocket Guide for Working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations
Sharon Hudacek, RN, EdD and
Michele Yehieli, DPH, and Mark A. Grey, PhD
Health Matters provides information on the role of culture in health and gives tips on interacting with more than a dozen cultural groups, including Arab Muslims and Southeast Asians. |
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Healing Zen: Awakening to Life of Wholeness and Compassion While Caring for Yourself and Others
Ellen Birx, RN, PhD
Awareness and meditation can help restore energy, build endurance, and fill our lives with compassion and joy. |
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Helping You Heal: A Book About Nurses
Sarah Wohlrabe
This book helps youngsters learn what nurses do to help patients stay healthy. |
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Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses: Empower Yourself (and Others!)
Carolyn Chambers Clark, EdD, ARNP, FAAN
Helps nurses interested in changing their attitudes and behaviors so they obtain greater personal and professional satisfaction. |
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The Journey Called You: A Roadmap to Self-Discovery and Acceptance
Julie Fuimano, RN
This practical "life manual" teaches the importance of learning how to reveal the essence of who you are so you can more
deeply enjoy the unique gifts you have been given. |
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Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
Kate Cumming
Cumming's journal gives readers a look behind the lines of Civil War action
and insight into medical practices and hospital systems of the times. |
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Leave
No Nurse Behind: Nurses Working with disAbilities
Donna Carol Maheady, ARNP, EdD
In Leave No Nurse Behind, 11 nurses who defied disability tell their
personal stories of courage and determination in the face of stigma
and discrimination, proving that nurses with disabilities have the
ability to successfully fill the jobs that so desperately need filling
during this national nursing shortage. |
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Legal,
Ethical and Political Issues in Nursing, 2nd edition
Tonia Dandry Aiken
This book, written by a nurse attorney, covers key concepts related
to nursing practice, standards of care, and the law. |
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Making
a Difference: Stories from the Point of Care,
Volume 1
Sharon Hudacek, RN, EdD
Making a Difference is a compelling collection of personal experiences
told by nurses around the world that paint a true picture of how
nurses impact the lives of patients from the moment life begins
to the moment it ends. |
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The Making of a Nurse
Tilda Shalof, RN
A lifelong caregiver describes how she became the capable ICU nurse she is today. |
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Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities
Chad E. O'Lynn and Russell E. Tranbarger
Nurses Chad O'Lynn and Russell Tanbarger offer a unique insider's view to how men work, succeed, and survive in nursing. |
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No Pain! No Gain!
A Mindful Approach to Weight Management
Franciene Marie Zimmerman, RN, PhD
This comprehensive self-help book that explores issues of self-love, body image, body sensing, and weight
management rather than weight loss.
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Nurses on the Run - Why They Come, Why They Stay
Karen Buley, RN
The stories in Nurses on the Run illustrate what drew us to nursing – and more important - why we stay. |
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Nurse: Past, Present and Future — The Making of Modern Nursing
Kate Trant and Sue Usher
Nurse: Past, Present and Future examines the culture of nursing, looking at its historical development and current status internationally. |
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Nursing,
The Finest Art: An Illustrated History
M. Patricia Donahue, RN, PhD, FAAN
This beautifully written and illustrated coffee table book is filled
with photographs, art, and images that chronicle our long, rich
history. |
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Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Profession, Volume II
Beth P. Houser, RN, DNSc, FNP-C, CNAA, and Kathy N. Player, RN, EdD
The authors weave historical events and remarkable storytelling into engaging and personal glimpses into the lives of 11 nurse leaders who made pivotal changes in the profession. |
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The
Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide 1854-1994
M. Elizabeth Carnegie, RN, DPA, FAAN
This is the third edition of the award-winning resource that examines
more than 140 years of black nurses’ contributions to the
field. |
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Ready, Set, Go Lead!
Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, RN, MSN, FAAN
Ready, Set, Go Lead! features information on leadership readiness for students and practicing nurses to assess their behaviors, adaptive competencies, and preparedness to assume leadership roles. Each chapter includes the description of a leadership concept, followed by an illustrative story, assessment questions, and fun and thoughtful exercises for the reader.
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Save the First Dance for You: The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Your Patient,
and Yourself
Doris Young, RN, PhD
Using a dance instruction metaphor, the book offers practical and coping techniques for nurses facing
the challenges of today's hectic healthcare workplace and demanding home lives. |
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Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk
Sandy Summers, RN, MSN, MPH; Harry Jacobs Summers
Saving Lives shows how negative images about nurses in the media affect real nurses and their patients and what to do about it. |
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7 Summits: A Nurse's Quest to Conquer Mountaineering and Life
Patrick Hickey
A mountain climber explores goal setting, motivation, dedication, and the pursuit of challenge in the face of adversity. |
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Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses
Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered
Jeanne Bryner
The book consists of biographical sketches of remarkable nurses, each accompanied by poetry and photographs. |
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The Nurse's Etiquette Advantage: How Professional Etiquette Can Advance Your Nursing Career
Kathleen D. Pagana, RN, PhD
The Nurse's Etiquette Advantage is a must-read for all nurses who want to boost their confidence
and credibility and avoid embarrassment in their personal and professional life. |
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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away NEW
Christie Watson
Watson, a part-time pediatric resuscitation nurse, won the 2011 Costa First Novel Award for this novel about a young girl learning how to be a midwife in rural Nigeria. |
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This Won't Hurt a Bit: A Lenny Moss
Mystery
Timothy Sheard
A murder mystery set in a hospital featuring a custodian sleuth. |
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Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
Janice Hudson
A flight nurse recounts her daily adventures. |
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Touched
by Angels of Mercy
Laura Lagana, RN
Nurses, patients, and caregivers recount the beautiful and often
untold stories of the sacredness and joy of everyday life for a
nurse/caregiver. |
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Transforming
Nurses’ Stress and Anger — Steps Toward Healing
Sandra P. Thomas
The book explores the reasons for nurses’ stress and anger
and addresses tough issues, such as the anger-depression link, consequences
of mismanaged anger, and dealing with anger and abuse from others. |
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Treasures of a Nurse's Heart: My Mother's Memoirs of Love and Wisdom for Everyday Life
Lisa S. Wagner and Martha M. Smith, RN
Treasures of a Nurse's Heart is a collection of 20 stories highlighting the 50-year nursing career of Martha Smith, RN. |
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The ULTIMATE Career for Nurses: Practical Advice for Thriving at Every Stage of Your Career NEW
Donna Wilk Cardillo, RN, MA
The ULTIMATE Career for Nurses: Practical Advice for Thriving at Every Stage of Your Career explores career options and reminds nurses how to love what they do. |
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Womankind: Connection & Wisdom Around the World
Nancy Leigh Harless, NP
A compilation of stories from real women across the world that Harless, a women's healthcare nurse
practitioner, has encountered in her travels. |
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Band of Angels: The Untold Story of Nurses Trapped on Bataan by
the Japanese
Elizabeth Norman
We Band of Angels tells the story of courage, survival, and the
indomitable spirit of 10 navy nurses and 68 army nurses who were
captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during WWII. |
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Your 1st Year as a Nurse, Second Edition NEW
Donna Cardillo, RN, MA
This book helps new and second-career nurses prepare for the challenges of the nursing profession.
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