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The World Health Assembly has designated 2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
in honor of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.
These titles represent a small portion of the over 8,000 books in our collection dedicated to the work of nurses and midwives and in support of the academic and clinical needs of Emory’s School of Nursing and the nursing staff of Emory Healthcare.
In Print
Until now: A brief history of Emory University Hospital and School of Nursing (1947) by Myrtle Tye History of Medicine Collection, WY 19 E5D4 1947 T
21st Century Nursing Leadership by WHSC Library, WY 105 A16 2018
The Shift: One nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives by eBook and in print at WHSC Library, WY 154 B78 2016
Delivered by Midwives: African American midwifery in the twentieth-century South by Woodruff Library, RG950 .L85 2018
Nurse: A world of care by WHSC Library, WY 7 N87 2008
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of nurses standing up for themselves, their patients, and their profession by Call Number: WHSC Library, WY 16.1 W567 2010 & eBookThe reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses--and the people they serve--in real-life hospitals, schools of nursing, and other settings. The RNs whose stories are collected here know that effective advocacy isn't easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public.
Coming Home: How midwives changed birth by Woodruff Library, RG950 .K57 2019
Nurses on the Inside: Stories of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in NYC by Woodruff Library, RC606.6 .M38 2019
Taking Charge: Nursing, suffrage, and feminism in America, 1873-1920 by Myrtle Tye History of Medicine Collection, WY 11 L4 1996 T
Women at War: The story of fifty military nurses who served in Vietnam by Woodruff Library, DS559.8 .W6 N67 1990 and eBook
A Sacred Covenant: The spiritual ministry of nursing by Pitts Theology Library, RT85.2 .O3694 2008.
Critical Care: A new nurse faces death, life, and everything in between by WHSC Library, WY 156 B881c 2010
Catching Babies: the professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920 by Woodruff Library, RG652 .B65 1995
Feminism and Nursing: An historical perspective on power, status, and political activism in the nursing profession by Woodruff Library, RT86.5 .R63 1995
Global Health Nursing: Narratives From the Field by eBook and in print at WHSC Library, WY 100.1 G56 2015
eBooks
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by Call Number: eBook and in print at WHSC Library, WY 17 C97 2017Graphic Novel: In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.
Talking Therapy: knowledge and power in American psychiatric nursing by Call Number: eBook, 2020Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Nurses now take for granted the ideas that underpin their relationships with patients, but this book demonstrates that these were ideas not easily won, and that nurses in the past fought hard to make mental health nursing what it is today.
Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Call Number: eBook, 2015Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As she reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter and each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered.
