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This year, the nurse practitioner’s role was recognized as the No. 1 job for helping people by U.S News & World Report. Nurse Practitioners: Touching lives and inspiring future healthcare heroes ...
5B is stirringly told through first-person testimony of these nurses and caregivers who built Ward 5B in 1983 at San Francisco General Hospital, their patients, loved ones, and staff who volunteered to create care practices based in humanity and holistic well-being during a time of great uncertainty. The result is an uplifting, yet candid and ...
Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami includes appearances with actor and patient safety advocate Dennis Quaid who shares how his twins accidentally twice received 1,000 times the dosage of a dangerous blood thinner called Heparin. He reports that his twins are "doing fine," and he hopes to prevent medical errors like theirs by sharing their story.
Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe is an autobiographical novel written by Sorrel King published by Grove Atlantic in 2009. [10] Her novel was named one of the Best Health Books of 2009 by the Wall Street Journal, [10] and nominated for a "Books for a Better life" Award from the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Narrative medicine is the discipline of applying the skills used in analyzing literature to interviewing patients. [1] The premise of narrative medicine is that how a patient speaks about his or her illness or complaint is analogous to how literature offers a plot (an interconnected series of events) with characters (the patient and others) and is filled with metaphors (picturesque, emotional ...
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Throughout her career and afterwards Harvey received much accolade for her contributions. She was a recipient of the Mary Mahoney Award from the American Nurses Association National Awards Program in 1982 [7] [5] [3] and in 1992 the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees named the Nurses Home “Lillian Holland Harvey Hall” in Harvey's honor. [5]