This book highlights selected words which have particular relevance for nursing. Quotations from such notables as Florence Nightingale, Confucius, and Ghandi offer thoughts for meditation—making this little book an ideal and inspirational companion for the caregiver.
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This little book reveals the philosophies that together form the core of every successful and fulfilled nurse--the inspirations, dreams, compassion, dedication, and strength that are impossible to acquire solely from a textbook or lab. By exploring the relevance of these every day words to the nursing profession 21 Words gives every nurse a source for thought provoking inspiration and meditation. Quoted are notables Florence Nightingale, Confucius, Isabella Stewart, Niccolo Machiavelli, Georges Bernanos, and Gandhi, to name a few.
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Jeanine Young-Mason, RN,EdD,CS,FAAN is Professor, School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches writing seminars in nursing studies and community mental health nursing and consultation. She is a psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist with a Doctorate in Humanistic and Behavioral Studies from Boston University. Young-Mason's writing, research, teaching, and consultation center on literature and the arts as primary sources for the study of suffering and compassion. She is specifically interested in the way in which nurses are educated to approach human suffering--pragmatically, morally, and spiritually.
Young-Mason writes a regular column "Nursing and the Arts" for Clinical Nurse Specialist: Journal for Advanced Practice Nursing. She is author of States of Exile: Correspondences Between Art, Literature and Nursing. NLN Press, NYC, 1995 (currently in translation into Arabic) and The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness, F.A. Davis, Philadelphia, 1996. Japanese translation title: Kanja no Koe Byouki no Taiken. Chikuma Gakugei Bunko Humanities Press, Tokyo, 2001
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