I’m a nurse and wish there were more nurse writers!! My favorite book written by a nurse is The Heart’s Truth by Cortney Davis. It’s a short collection of essays.
Call the midwife is a great choice… Jennifer Worth started her career as a midwife and then decided to take care of dying elderly people… A great experience to read so much love and compassion in so few volumes…
The series is just as great as the books! Loved every episode… And London’s East End was quite faithfully depicted… The books are of a different kind, though… I would also recommend reading the collection of letters that were sent by readers and viewers to the author (I think she died shortly after the series started)… Some of the readers had actually been given birth by some of the people described in the books… In other words : a must-read
It is. A black delivery nurse in a hospital who has to confront white supremacist parents who won’t let her touch their baby… And that’s just the start…
Nurse, the true story of Mary Benjamin RN.. by Peggy Anderson. I got this while going through nursing school, haven’t gotten very far. Didn’t realize how long ago it was published until it made mention of a patient smoking in his room: the only problem they had with it was that he kept setting the waste basket on fire! It was fine otherwise lol
Many years ago I read a few autobiographical books about nursing by Echo Heron (? Sp ?) I also enjoyed The Midwife of Hope River and The Reluctant Midwife by Patricia Harman. I can’t remember which was first in the series out of those 2 but I really enjoyed them. Mix of Historical fiction + nursing
Are you okay reading about an evil home care giver? Try Sue Grafton T is for Trespass. My book group even did this one! Grafton novels are usually more fun to read than to discuss. But this one had lots of things to talk about!
small great things by jodi picoult
Misery?
Lol, but true!!
First one that came to my mind.
The nurses
Call the midwife and I think Come you here nurse about home health care nurses in rural scotland
I think I read the second one. I love the TV show Call the Midwives.
I love the series – I have never read her books.
It’s Nurse, Come You Here and the sequel is Call the Nurse. By Mary J. MacLeod. I really enjoyed them.
The Call the Midwife books are a lot more bleak than the tv series. Not that this is a bad thing, just be prepared.
Perhaps this suggested list of books might be helpful to you:
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Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanthi. It’s not nursing but it is medicine and it’s a riveting book.
The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
I’m a nurse and wish there were more nurse writers!! My favorite book written by a nurse is The Heart’s Truth by Cortney Davis. It’s a short collection of essays.
One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens. About her experiences as a nurse in WW2.
Call the midwife is a great choice… Jennifer Worth started her career as a midwife and then decided to take care of dying elderly people… A great experience to read so much love and compassion in so few volumes…
The Call the Midwife series on PBS is also a wonderful program with the same qualities.
The series is just as great as the books! Loved every episode… And London’s East End was quite faithfully depicted… The books are of a different kind, though… I would also recommend reading the collection of letters that were sent by readers and viewers to the author (I think she died shortly after the series started)… Some of the readers had actually been given birth by some of the people described in the books… In other words : a must-read
Outlander!
Loved it!
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
On my TBR list but the subject appeals to me
Is that about a nurse? I’ll have to check it out.
It is. A black delivery nurse in a hospital who has to confront white supremacist parents who won’t let her touch their baby… And that’s just the start…
The Nurses
Call The Midwife by @Jennifer
Nurse, the true story of Mary Benjamin RN.. by Peggy Anderson. I got this while going through nursing school, haven’t gotten very far. Didn’t realize how long ago it was published until it made mention of a patient smoking in his room: the only problem they had with it was that he kept setting the waste basket on fire! It was fine otherwise lol
Many years ago I read a few autobiographical books about nursing by Echo Heron (? Sp ?)
I also enjoyed The Midwife of Hope River and The Reluctant Midwife by Patricia Harman. I can’t remember which was first in the series out of those 2 but I really enjoyed them. Mix of Historical fiction + nursing
Call the Midwives
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue who wrote Room has a nurse as the main character…but not about nursing per se…
Love Lisa Genovese
Are you okay reading about an evil home care giver? Try Sue Grafton T is for Trespass. My book group even did this one! Grafton novels are usually more fun to read than to discuss. But this one had lots of things to talk about!