I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

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Download Introduction: The Anonymous, Irreplaceable Nurse by Lee Gutkind (105 KB)

Download Foreword: The Art of Meeting Patient Need by Karen Wolk Feinstein (103 KB)

Download Hitting the Bone by Eddie Lueken (157 KB)

Download The Haunting by Thomas Schwarz (199 KB)

Download Becoming a Nurse by Laura DeVaney (197 KB)

Download Next of Kin by Josephine Ensign (245 KB)

Download Healing Wang Jie's Bottom by L. Karby-Zhao (220 KB)

Download Zietgeber by Denise Elliot (226 KB)

Download A Long Night's Journey Into Day by Theresa Brown (230 KB)

Download Don't Ever Forget Me by Christopher Lance Coleman (226 KB)

Download Heart Lessons by Diane Kraynak (368 KB)

Download Docking in Togo by Jennifer Binger, as told to Ann Swindell (402 KB)

Download I see You by Tilda Shalof (317 KB)

Download Listening and Other Lifesaving Measures by Karla Theilen (438 KB)

Download Careening Toward Reunion by Nina Gaby (507 KB)

Download Nurse Nora at Nineteen by Nora Casper (326 KB)

Download Four Sticks by Janice Dvorak (449 KB)

Download Messiah, Not Otherwise Specified by Janet Gool (531 KB)

Download All Alone and Afraid: Becoming a Person Through Nursing by Anna Gersman (448 KB)

Download Individually Identifiable by Pamela Baker (580 KB)

Download Approaching Death by Kimberly A. Condon (377 KB)

Download The Nurses Whispered by Patricia A. Nugent (420 KB)

Download Becoming by Lori Mulvihill (174 KB)

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