My First Year as a Nurse: Real-World Stories from America's Nurses

by Barbara Finkelstein

From ER to the war zone, here are stories of courage, dedication and medical miracles. This book features 19 intimate and inspiring tales from a cross-section of this important, diverse, and often difficult profession, including a nurse-midwife, a psychiatric nurse, hospital staff nurse, military nurse and many more. A part of the First Year Career series, it offers personal accounts and straight-from-the-hip advice not found in typical career guides...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451191714
• ISBN13: 9780451191717
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book

This is a great little book on nursing. It is full of interesting real life stories and lessons to be learned from those real life advantures. Definitely a MUST for anyone thinking of going into nursing or nursing students.

real life nursing found here

Here are some honest stories about the first year of nursing. The book is well balanced between the various specialties, and it is very entertaining. It showed differing viewpoints from nurses just entering to experienced veterans who began long ago. Nursing is a profession with plenty of myths associated with it. This book dispels many of them.