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For artists, designers and craftworkers-125 copyright-free designs depicting birds, human figures, mythological creatures, interwoven patterns and more, all meticulously adapted from centuries-old rune stones, religious symbols, furniture, manuscripts, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts. A wealth of dramatic ornamentation in a practical and inexpensive sourcebook.
Recreate glories of Celtic art with 16 full-page plates of Celtic motifs printed on translucent paper. Intricate, sinuous depictions of mythical beasts, Celtic crosses, saints, other subjects. Simply color and hang near a light source for exciting stained glass effects. 16 full-page designs printed on both sides of translucent paper.
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B is for Boss Lady (Paperback)
Leslie Hernandez; Illustrated by Courtney Davis; Courtney Davis
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Discovery Miles 2 820
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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.
In this collection, 65 nurses 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. These nurses, both men and women, speak to us from intensive
care units and operating rooms, from patients' homes and storefront
clinics, from hospitals with the latest technology to small clinics
in the steamy jungles of Nicaragua. They tell us what it's like to
walk in their shoes and see the drama of illness and healing unfold
before their eyes. The nurses in this anthology write to hold fast
to a patient's memory, to say what it's like when a nurse becomes
the caregiver to a family member, or to tell what happens when a
nurse becomes a patient, suddenly confronting mortality from the
other end of the stethoscope. They share with us what is almost
impossible to talk about - how being present with a patient can
transform not only that patient's life but the nurse's life as
well. This work is a contribution to the medical humanities canon
and to literature as a whole.
In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and
author who often writes about her interactions with patients,
underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a
series of life-altering and life-threatening complications,
resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery.
During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how
suddenly a caregiver can become a care receiver and what it's like
to be "on the other side of the sickbed." As a nurse, she was
accustomed to suffering and to the empathy such witnessing can
evoke, but as a patient she learned new and transforming lessons in
pain, fear, loneliness, abandonment, and dependency; in the
fragility of health and life; in the necessity of family support;
and, ultimately, in the importance of gratitude. Once at home,
Davis wanted to respond to her illness creatively through her
writing, but the details seemed too intense, too raw for words. As
her recovery progressed, she found release in painting, discovering
an immediate connection between heart and hand, between memory and
canvas. In a series of twelve paintings, she re-envisioned episodes
of her illness, moments that remained and replayed in her
consciousness, ultimately providing an education in health care
more resonant and more authentic than what she had found in nursing
textbooks. Before, serving as a nurse in intensive care, oncology,
and women's health, Davis believed that she understood what
hospitalized patients might be experiencing and how they might be
coping. Her own illness taught her how little she truly knew and
how important it is that all caregivers-professionals and family
members alike-become aware of the physical and the inner emotional
needs of their seriously ill patients. After the twelve paintings
were completed, Davis wrote brief commentaries for each image. She
used her remembrances to clarify and expand on her artwork, thereby
making her personal story accessible to others. While every
patient's journey and every caregiver's challenges are unique,
these intimate and revealing paintings and reflections offer a
glimpse into the universal aspects of illness and recovery.
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