Intensive Care

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Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Iowa Pr
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Summary

In Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses, sixty-four nurses, both male and female, from places as diverse as California and Alaska, South America and Europe, tell us in tough, revealing poems and prose what it's like to be on the front lines of health care. Like its companion volume, Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses, Intensive Care makes a valuable contribution to the medical humanities canon and to literature as a whole. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Cortney Davis
Krystina Ahlman
Medical Ward
1(2)
Frances Murphy Araujo
A Moment in the History of Nursing
3(3)
Jane Bailey
Night Shift
6(1)
September
7(2)
Carol Battaglia
Thin Margin
9(1)
Andrea Lee Beliveau
The Dance
10(1)
Lynn Bernardini
Does This Date Mean Anything to You?
11(6)
Janet Bernichon
Object of Desire
17(1)
Chemo
18(1)
Sunday
19(1)
Mercy and Hemlock
20(1)
Code Blue
21(2)
Hanne Dina Bernstein
Burn
23(1)
Down the Hospital Corridor
23(2)
Kirstin Bortz
Dar a Luz
25(2)
Geoffrey Bowe
Male Nurse Washing a Nun
27(1)
Dark Lines and Words
28(1)
Pick Up the Spoon
29(1)
Ruth E. Brooks
The Essence of Nursing: 1967
30(4)
Celia Brown
The Crickets Went On Singing
34(1)
Forget-Me-Nots
35(1)
School Nurse's Journal
36(1)
In the Solarium
37(1)
Mammography: A Word with Grandma's Ghost
38(2)
Jeanne Bryner
Body of Knowledge: Remembering Diploma Schools, 1976
40(1)
Call and Response
41(1)
Standing There
42(1)
Breathless
43(1)
Miscarriage: The Nurse Speaks to the Baby
44(1)
What Nurses Do: The Marriage of Suffering and Healing
45(2)
Teresa Campbell
The Radio
47(2)
Shulamith Cantor
Slowly, Life Returned to Normal
49(9)
Alice Capshaw
Good-bye
58(1)
Marlene Cesar
What Nurses Do Best
59(2)
Robin Chard
In the OR
61(1)
Victoria May Collett
The Color of Blood
62(5)
Cortney Davis
Career Day
67(1)
The Swan by the Mall
68(1)
Every Day, the Pregnant Teenagers
69(1)
Water Story
70(1)
How I'm Able to Love
70(2)
The Other Side of Illness
72(3)
Theodore Deppe
Marisol
75(2)
Counting the Children
77(1)
What Thomas Wanted
78(1)
Children's Unit Blues
79(2)
One on One with Dylan Thomas
81(3)
Sandra Bishop Ebner
Autopsy No. 24722
84(1)
The Shape of the Human Spine
85(2)
Terry Evans
Sarah's Pumpkin Bread
87(4)
Maureen Tolman Flannery
Rubbing Her Back at the Nursing Home
91(1)
Helen Trubek Glenn
Premature
92(1)
Eurydice in the State Hospital Laundry
93(1)
Portrait
94(1)
Chris Grant
Edna's Star
95(5)
Amy Haddad
Conversation with Wendy
100(1)
Port-a-Cath
101(1)
Ten Items or Less
102(1)
Pauline Hebert
Tet, Vietnam 1968
103(1)
Nina Howes
The Story of Mr. President
104(1)
Karen Howland
Age Garden
105(2)
Hilarie Jones
The Teacher
107(2)
Alyson Kennedy
At the Beginning of Each Shift
109(1)
Like a Night Watchman
110(1)
Sue Klassen
The Facts of Lice in Nueva Vida, Nicaragua
111(3)
Shirley Kobar
Stethoscope
114(1)
Joan Stack Kovach
Mourning Coffee
115(3)
Debra Kowalski
Endurance and Faith
118(8)
Scott Chisholm Lamont
Four Men, Sitting
126(3)
Not Mine
129(2)
Jeanne Levasseur
Old Man in Bedclothes
131(1)
Redemption at the Women's Center
132(1)
Arrival
133(1)
The One
134(1)
Shifts
135(2)
Patricia Maher
Miss Smith
137(1)
Charlie's Koan
137(1)
Why We Wore White
138(2)
Veneta Masson
The Nurse's Job
140(1)
La Muerte
141(1)
Negative Conditioning
142(1)
Admission
143(1)
Nurse in Neighborhood Clinic Disappeared
144(3)
Elizabeth Keough Mcdonald
The Politics of Disease
147(1)
Bataan Angels
148(1)
Pamela Mitchell
A Nurse's Farewell
149(3)
Muriel Murch
Mr. Tims's Morning
152(6)
Madeleine Mysko
That Mystique
158(10)
Carol Nachtrab
I Remember Vietnam
168(3)
Miriam Bruning Payne
Change of Shift
171(2)
Christine Rahn
Car Spotting
173(12)
Pre-op
Geri Rosenzweig
185(1)
Covert of Zero
186(1)
What Was Left of Summer
187(1)
Jo-Anne Rowley
What Nurses Do on Their Day Off
188(1)
Judy Schaefer
A Pediatric Nurse over Time
189(1)
Long Distance Call
190(1)
A Bridge
191(1)
Astronomy and Nursing
192(1)
Terminal Nurse: Reflections on New Millennium Nursing
193(1)
Eurycleia
194(1)
Paula Sergi
Home Visits
195(1)
On Switching from Nursing to English
196(2)
Jessica Shrader
Long-Term Companion
198(1)
Kelly Sievers
Girl
199(4)
Kathleen Walsh Spencer
RX for Nurses: Brag!
203(1)
Sailor Explains Kissing the Nurse
204(1)
Army Nurses, Vietnam, 1966
205(2)
Constance Studer
Mercy
207(14)
Sallie Tisdale
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story
221(9)
Janet Tripp
The Door Locker
230(3)
Andrea Vlahakis
Nursing 101: Pediatric Rotation
233(1)
Faith Vroman
Sixteen Standing Hours
234(1)
Belle Waring
Shots
235(1)
The Forgery
236(2)
It Was My First Nursing Job
238(3)
Anne Webster
Stuff I Learned in Nursing School
241(1)
Doppelganger
242(2)
Mary Wentz
Smile! You're in a Nursing Home
244(3)
Leigh Wilkerson
Neonatal ICU
247(1)
Richard Yakimo
Hands Beckoning
248(3)
Judy Schaefer
Afterword
251(2)
About the Contributors 253(8)
Permissions 261(4)
Index to Titles and First Lines 265

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