Real Nurses
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
by:
Jennifer Worth
4.19 avg rating — 77,378 ratings 2. 
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 4.28 avg rating — 4,729 ratings
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A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit
by:
Tilda Shalof
4.07 avg rating — 1,686 ratings 6. 
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology) 3.80 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
by:
Janice Hudson
4.33 avg rating — 1,164 ratings 
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Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
by:
Theresa Brown
3.85 avg rating — 2,673 ratings 
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,810 ratings
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The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse's Impressions of the First World War
by:
Mary Borden
4.12 avg rating — 392 ratings 
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital 3.74 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
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Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
by:
Tilda Shalof
3.93 avg rating — 192 ratings 25. 
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
by:
Cate Lineberry
3.74 avg rating — 2,008 ratings 
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by:
Theresa Brown
3.88 avg rating — 7,740 ratings 
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Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
by:
June Wandrey
4.34 avg rating — 344 ratings 
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Nurse On Call: The True Story of a 1950s District Nurse
by:
Edith Cotterill
3.96 avg rating — 814 ratings 
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 36. 
No Ordinary Heroes: 8 Doctors, 30 Nurses, 7,000 Prisoners, and a Category 5 Hurricane
by:
Demaree Inglese
3.92 avg rating — 100 ratings 37. 
Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
by:
Edward Humes
4.19 avg rating — 194 ratings 37. 
Both Sides of the Bedside: From Oncology Nurse to Patient, an RN's Journey with Cancer 4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Sisters in Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story
by:
Nicola Tyrer
4.17 avg rating — 156 ratings 41. 
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
by:
Gillian Gill
3.80 avg rating — 435 ratings 
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Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
by:
Kris Holloway
4.17 avg rating — 4,983 ratings 46. 
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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by:
Barbara Kautz
4.14 avg rating — 2,458 ratings 
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My Story of the War (Illustrated): A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army
by:
Mary Livermore
4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings 52. 
Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse #1)
by:
Mary J. MacLeod
3.95 avg rating — 9,143 ratings 53. 
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific 4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp (Graphic Biographies series)
by:
Trina Robbins
3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings 55. 
Bedpans & Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime
by:
Barbara Fox
4.10 avg rating — 233 ratings 
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G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Yes Sister, No Sister: My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire
by:
Jennifer Craig
4.17 avg rating — 1,337 ratings 62. 
Forensic Nurse: The New Role of the Nurse in Law Enforcement
by:
Serita Stevens
3.50 avg rating — 82 ratings 
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Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives
by:
Elisabeth Brooke
3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings 67. 
The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse 4.07 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Midwife's Here! The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives
by:
Linda Fairley
3.97 avg rating — 1,981 ratings 
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Out of My Comfort Zone: A Journey into the Medical Mission Field of Haiti 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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I'm Dying to Take Care of You: Nurses and Codependence : Breaking the Cycles
by:
Candace Snow
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Little Women of Baghlan: The Story of a Nursing School for Girls in Afghanistan, the Peace Corps, and Life Before the Taliban
by:
Susan Fox
4.16 avg rating — 55 ratings 73. 
Footprints in the Dust: Nursing, Survival, Compassion, and Hope with Refugees Around the World
by:
Roberta Gately
4.22 avg rating — 180 ratings 73. 
Warm Hearts: A nurses’ recipe for a successful and fulfilling Career not just an ordinary nursing book 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Human Caring through Healing Haiku: Mindful Journaling for Healthcare Providers
by:
Janette Moreno
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
83. 
Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
by:
Judith N. Lasker
4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings 
88. 
She Who is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service
by:
Karen Kotrba
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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One Nurse At A Time: Lessons Learned : True Stories of Humanitarian Responders on the Front Line 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Eine Frau zwischen den Fronten. Das Leben der Elsa Brändström
by:
Dietmar Kruczek
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 94. 
The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders
by:
Peter Elkind
3.92 avg rating — 431 ratings 
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Who Gets the Drumstick?: The Story of the Beardsley Family
by:
Helen Beardsley
3.95 avg rating — 561 ratings 98. 
Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk
by:
Sandy Summers
3.74 avg rating — 81 ratings 98. 
The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers 3.90 avg rating — 161 ratings
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