A Guide to Becoming a Successful Nurse

Nursing can be an incredibly rewarding career field for many people. However, it can also be quite intimidating! It’s not really for everyone, but if you are looking at this as an attractive career choice, consider if it is a good fit for you!

This book, RN Bound: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Nurse, by Yalanda Comeaux, seeks to provide an aspiring nurses look at their career choice so that they can make sure this is the right choice for them.

As a nurse educator, the author, Yalanda Comeaux, has worked with many nursing students who passed through nursing programs only to become overwhelmed at the reality of the profession.

Going into this field and a nursing program with open eyes is going to ensure your success! Comeaux provides a strong examination of the nursing profession for would-be students so that they can learn to be more successful when picking a program and going through with it.

True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

When it comes to becoming a nurse, there is a lot that we cannot possibly expect. There is no amount of preparation that anyone can realistically do in order to be prepared for all situations once you become a nurse.

However, hearing the stories of others can often help us better understand how to deal with these situations and how to adjust as needed in the future.

In I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse, edited by Lee Gutkind, you can read a collection of true narratives that reflect the diversity of nurses and what they encountered when they started off in the nursing fields. Some of these stories are about first births, or first deaths, and some are about first “sticks.”

This is a beautiful collection as it demonstrates the voices of nurses at different points of their careers and how they find that their life and career is changed by their encounters in nursing. Each story shows the courage, the difficult, and the beauty of the nursing career.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: In Fact Books; 1 edition (April 9, 2013)
• ISBN-10: 1937163121
• ISBN-13: 978-1937163129

Textbook of Basic Nursing

In nursing, there are a lot of changes that occur in medical and nursing practices, often to address the growing needs of modern medicine and the needs of an ever-changing patient population.

The Eleventh Edition of the Textbook of Basic Nursing is fully updated for the current nursing and medical practices often used in the nursing industry today. This covers a variety of curriculum – including Maternity, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Fundamentals, Skills, Adult Health, Growth and Development, Mental Health, Anatomy, and Physiology.

Throughout the pages of this comprehensive text, the authors, Caroline Bunker Rosdahl RN BSN MA,  and Mary T. Kowalski RN BA BSN MSN provide an engaging presentation of data, photos, illustrations, and easy to read and understand content that focuses heavily on practice-oriented and mastery-focused learning. This textbook has both tools in the book and online as well to help readers gain the essential skills needed in modern nursing.

• ISBN-13: 978-1469894201
• ISBN-10: 1469894203
• Hardcover: 2024 pages
• Publisher: LWW; Eleventh edition (October 13, 2016)

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