Intensive Care

by Davis, Cortney; Schaefer, Judy

• ISBN13: 9780877458388
• ISBN10: 0877458383
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: 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