Grace Notes on Nursing
- Publisher
- HARP Publishing The People's Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2023
- Category
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990137419
- Publish Date
- Oct 2023
- List Price
- $$22.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990137525
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $22.99
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Description
A physician celebrates the nursing profession, offering a paean of praise to his countless nurse colleagues, friends, and mentors over almost fifty years of learning, teaching, and practicing at four universities. John’s opening words recall his earliest learning: “Two nurses—one very senior and one very junior—became my first teachers during my apprenticeship in the art and science of caring for those in need.”
About the authors
John Graham-Pole is a retired professor of pediatrics (Professor Emeritus, University of Florida). He has been a clinician, teacher and pioneer researcher in the field of childhood cancer for forty years. Educated in the United Kingdom, he co-founded the Center for Arts in Medicine (www.arts.ufl.edu) at the University of Florida, now among the world’s leading arts-and-health organizations. He is co-publisher of HARP The People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca), which is dedicated to producing print and online publications on art and health for a diverse readership. John’s personal website is www. Johngrahampole.com and he can be found on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Editorial Reviews
Here’s something new: a doctor’s experiences of working with nurses who became his teachers, mentors, colleagues, friends — and “ministering angels.” Everyone of them was instrumental in the author’s recognition of medicine as both art and science. I much enjoyed reading Grace Notes. John is a fine writer with the power to draw the reader into each scene he describes, to let us see and feel what is happening. Each story comes alive through its vivid historical detail and its use of local dialect — be it West of Scotland or Southern US. This is a memoir that is also an homage to the profession of nursing. These laudatory portraits include many touching moments as well as tense encounters with nurses who were unafraid to speak up and question a doctor’s judgment. John offers this prayer: “We can only hope there will be nurses like the ones portrayed in Grace Notes for us and our loved ones when our time of need comes.” Tilda Shalof, RN Critical Care Nurse, Medical-Surgical ICU, Toronto General Hospital, for 36 years Author of A Nurse’s Story—Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit.
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