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1) The women
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words "Women can be heroes, too," impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America" --
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
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My weird school volume 7
Language
English
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Mrs. Cooney, the school nurse, is so beautiful that A.J. has a crush on her--even though he suspects she might be an international spy!
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"It's been twelve years since ER nurse Frankie Stapleton fled the quiet banks of Stillwater, but with her sister?s pregnancy taking a dangerous turn and a string of failed relationships in Chicago hanging over her, Frankie is back?and hoping to put the past behind her. Within minutes of arriving at Stillwater General Hospital however, she ends up saving a man?s life, only to have him turn up dead hours later ? and the hospital blames Frankie. Her...
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"A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery... An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It's called an appalling tragedy-- until suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caught up in a venomous...
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English
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Nurses have always been vital to human existence. A nurse was likely there when you were born and a nurse might well be there when you die. Yet despite being celebrated during the Covid-19 epidemic, nurses are often undermined and undervalued in ways that reflect misogyny and racism, and that extend to their working conditions—and affect the care available to everyone. In Taking Care, journalist Sarah DiGregorio chronicles the lives of nurses past...
7) Rescue team
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Series
Grace Medical novels volume 2
Language
English
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When an unthinkable tragedy brings search and rescue hero Wes Tanner to Austin Grace Hospital, he finds a connection with Kate Callison, the ER director, which becomes complicated with an unsolved missing persons case.
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Eliza Fairbanks may be old, but she's hardly senile-- and someone is trying to kill her. The arsenic in her sugar bowl is the first clue. The nightly plagues of bats, birds, and rats in her bedroom were the second indication. Hilda Adams-- 'Miss Pinkerton'-- is a nurse, not a detective, but she has the opportunity to witness the inner workings of the household. Her investigation uncovers a web of intrigue. -- adapted from jacket
10) Our hospital
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Series
House of God novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Coming together to help the small town of Columbia, New York, during COVID-19, four doctors battle both a raging pandemic and the financial woes facing small hospitals everywhere, risking everything to save their patients.
11) A bitter truth
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A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex.
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"No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist,...
13) Miss Pinkerton
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"When Herbert Wynne is found dead, with a bullet in the forehead, the obvious explanation is murder. But how could it be when the only possible suspect is Herbert's frail Aunt Juliet? Posing as Juliet's private duty nurse, the Homicide Bureau's Hilda Adams develops grave suspicions. Why is the maid terrified of every dark corner? And if a mad killer is on the loose, who will be targeted as the next victim?"--FantasticFiction.com.
15) Disaster status
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Series
Mercy Hospital (Candace Calvert) volume 2
Language
English
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A hazardous material spill means ER charge nurse Erin Quinn and fire captain Scott McKenna must work together, even though they don't seem to agree on much of anything.
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English
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"In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, take refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear"--
17) Gone tonight
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the...
19) Nurses
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Series
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn about nurses, where they work, and how they help people to stay healthy.
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