What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the
stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bedlaughing
moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And
how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways
that bring these memories to life again and provide historical
context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the
same? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose,
Learning to Heal explores these questions with contributions by
nurses from a variety of social, ethnic, and geographical
backgrounds. Readers meet a black nursing student who is surrounded
by white teachers and patients in 1940, a mother who rises every
morning at 5 a.m. to help her family ready for their day before she
herself heads to anatomy class, and an itinerant Jewish teenager
who is asked, "What will you become?" These individuals, and many
other women and men, share personal stories of finding their way to
nursing school, where they begin a long, often wonderful, and
sometimes daunting, journey. Many of the nurse-authors are
experienced, wellpublished writers; others are academics, widely
known in their fields; but each offers a unique perspective on
nursing education. Notably, an essay by Minnie Brown Carter and an
interview with Helen L. Albert provide valuable ethnographies of
underrepresented voices. Through strong, moving essays and poems
that explore various aspects of student nursing and provide
historical perspective on nursing and nursing education, all have
stories to tell. Learning to Heal tells them in ways that will
appeal to many readers, both in and out of the nursing and medical
professions, and to educators in the medical humanities.
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