Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Tales From Kentucky Nurses
Download Tales From Kentucky Nurses full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Tales From Kentucky Nurses ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Tales from Kentucky Nurses by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Tales from Kentucky Nurses written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history shares stories of Kentucky nurses—from frontier births to emergency rooms and from the early twentieth-century to the present day. From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women in Tales from Kentucky Nurses. From humorous anecdotes to spine-chilling coincidences, tragic circumstances, and heartwarming encounters, the tales in this lively volume are recorded exactly as they were told to Montell. This collection features anecdotes from the famous Frontier Nursing Service, which provided essential care to families in remote areas of the state and whose leader, Mary Breckinridge, is remembered for her wit and kindness. In addition, Montell's interviewees share ghost stories and describe folk remedies like the practice of placing an axe under a woman's pillow during labor to cut the pain. These firsthand accounts not only pay homage to an underappreciated profession but also preserve important aspects of Kentucky's history not likely to be recorded elsewhere.
Book Synopsis Tales from Kentucky Nurses by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Tales from Kentucky Nurses written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women in Tales from Kentucky Nurses. From humorous anecdotes to spine-chilling coincidences, tragic circumstances, and heartwarming encounters, the tales in this lively volume are recorded exactly as they were told to Montell. Covering medical practice in the state from the early twentieth century through contemporary times, the episodes related in Tales from Kentucky Nurses reveal the significance of the nursing profession to the Bluegrass state's local life and culture. They include funny tales -- such as the story of an injured stripper who swore her pole had been sabotaged and an anecdote about a surgeon racing between hospitals who paid his speeding ticket twice, knowing he would have to hurry the other way in a few hours. Montell also presents moving stories like the recollections of a nurse who helped a frail cancer patient achieve his last wish of being baptized. This valuable collection also features anecdotes from the famous Frontier Nursing Service, which provided essential care to families in remote areas of the state and whose leader, Mary Breckinridge, is remembered fondly for her wit and kindness. In addition, Montell's interviewees share ghost stories and describe folk remedies like the practice of placing an axe under a woman's pillow during labor to cut the pain. These firsthand accounts not only pay homage to an underappreciated profession but also preserve important aspects of Kentucky's history not likely to be recorded elsewhere.
Book Synopsis Professional Nursing in Kentucky by : Kentucky Nurses Association
Download or read book Professional Nursing in Kentucky written by Kentucky Nurses Association and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales from Kentucky Doctors by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Tales from Kentucky Doctors written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book lets us see the human side of physicians—the humorous, the heartwarming—the tradition of health care in Kentucky.” —The Harrodsburg Herald From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky Doctors present illuminating portraits of doctors and patients, drawing stories from physicians with lifetimes of experience serving Kentucky families. Doctors recall the successes and failures that shaped their early careers. For Dr. Baretta R. Casey of Hazard, becoming a doctor was a difficult journey. Already married and with a child, Casey enrolled in college at age thirty, later completed medical school, and began a successful career as a family practitioner in the 1990s. Though patient visitations and doctors’ prescriptions are recorded on account ledgers, personal relationships and memories are not part of medical records. The section “Personal Practice” gives a glimpse of the intimate connection that doctors form with their communities. For many towns, family physicians were heroes. Dr. James S. Brashear relates the challenges of practicing in Central City, a coal mining town, recalling an incident in which he saved the lives of two miners. Handed down to Montell in the oral tradition, the tales presented in this collection represent every part of the state. Personal experiences, humorous anecdotes, and local legends make it a fascinating panorama of Kentucky physicians and of the communities they served. “Abounds with interesting and amusing anecdotes about life in rural Kentucky. For those of us who grew up during these times, it brings back fond memories of good times and bad.” —Bowling Green Daily News
Download or read book Kentucky Nurse written by Fern Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales from Kentucky Doctors by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Tales from Kentucky Doctors written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky Doctors present illuminating portraits of doctors and patients, drawing stories from physicians with lifetimes of experience serving Kentucky families. In chapter 2, doctors recall the successes and failures that shaped their early careers. For Dr. Baretta R. Casey of Hazard, becoming a doctor was a difficult journey. Already married and with a child, Casey enrolled in college at age thirty, later completed medical school, and began a successful career as a family practitioner in the 1990s. Though patient visitations and doctors' prescriptions are recorded on account ledgers, personal relationships and memories are not part of medical records. The section "Personal Practice" gives a glimpse of the intimate relationships doctors form with their communities. "I doubt that any individual was nearer to the family than the family doctor," Dr. W. L. Tyler says in one story. For many towns, family physicians were heroes. Dr. James S. Brashear relates the challenges of practicing in Central City, a coal mining town, recalling an incident in which he saved the lives of two miners. Handed down to Montell in the oral tradition, the tales presented in this collection represent every part of the state. Personal experiences, humorous anecdotes, and local legends make it a fascinating panorama of Kentucky physicians and of the communities they served.
Book Synopsis A Great Heart by : Shirley Noe Swiesz
Download or read book A Great Heart written by Shirley Noe Swiesz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival was their dearest hope...these mountain people. Their children were their greatest asset...but they died one by one, long before they reached the age of six, many times at birth along with their mother. When a mother died in childbirth the family was usually broken into tiny pieces...but Mary Breckenridge changed all that with her midwives and nurses. They rode their horses in the middle of the night, in the coldest of winter, to save a mother and her child...but they did more than that...they treated gunshot wounds, snake bites, gave shots, but most of all they gave hope to this mountain community where few had cared until this great woman came into their midst. Mary Breckenridge had vowed never to love again, but she fell in love with these mountain people and served them well...with the courage of Job, she began to live again...a different life, but a full one, and she took an entire mountain of people with her on this journey, along with her nurses and midwives. This is the story that might have been her own.
Book Synopsis Rooted in the Mountains, Reaching to the World by : Anne Z. Cockerham
Download or read book Rooted in the Mountains, Reaching to the World written by Anne Z. Cockerham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she wrote her autobiography, Wide Neighborhoods, in 1952, Mary Breckinridge reflected on what her beloved Frontier Nursing Service had achieved since its founding in 1925. She compared FNS to a tree, a metaphor that aptly described the service's steadfast and powerful roots in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, as well as the plentiful yield of healthy babies delivered by the Frontier nurses. Breckinridge was equally proud of another of the Frontier Nursing Service's products: the hundreds of graduates of the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery (later called the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing and today known as Frontier Nursing University). Through their subsequent work in the United States and around the world, Frontier alumni constitute a significant portion of the Frontier legacy. Indeed, through their care of thousands of women, babies, and families, the graduates have provided "shade and fruit" to many. The stories and experiences of the early Frontier graduates -- those who attended the School in its first 50 years -- provide a fascinating glimpse into a part of nurse-midwifery history that has heretofore not been given significant attention, and therefore is the purpose of this book.
Book Synopsis Nurses on Horseback by : Ernest Poole
Download or read book Nurses on Horseback written by Ernest Poole and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurses On Horseback by Ernest Poole. Originally published in 1932. ILLUSTRATIONS NURSES ON HORSEBACK Frontispiece Inset MARY BRECKINRIDGE FACING PAGE AN OLD MIDWIFE 10 A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER 10 NURSE VISITING A CABIN 10 FATHER AND SON 10 FATHER AND DAUGHTER 10 HUNTING SQUIRRELS 10 A MOUNTAIN MOTHER 11 A KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEER 11 BEECH FORK CENTER 24 BARN AT WENDOVER AND COURIERS 24 FORDING RED BIRD RIVER 25 CARRYING A SICK BABY TO HOSPITAL 25 A DOCTORS FIELD CLINIC 25 BRINGING AN ACCIDENT CASE ACROSS THE RIVER 4 2 TRANSPORTING INJURED MOUNTAINEER 42 BRINGING AN ACCIDENT CASE OVER A MOUN TAIN CLINIC DAY AT A CENTER 43 CHILDRENS SLEEPING PORCH AT HOSPITAL 82 IN THE BABIES WARD AT HOSPITAL 82 vii Illustrations FACING PAGE THE TWINS WHEN BROUGHT TO THE HOS PITAL 83 THE TWINS AFTER TREATMENT 83 MARY AND MARTHA MORGAN AND TWO OTHER TODDLERS 83 OLD MIDWIFE AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER, NOW IN CARE OF THE FRONTIER NURSES 94 NANCY ODRISCOLL 94 CHILDREN IN CABIN ON HURRICANE CREEK 94 A FRONTIER NURSE IN A MOUNTAIN HOME 95 NANCY OD ISCOLLS CLINIC AT CUTSHIN 95 A MOUNTAIN SCHOOL 95 CLINIC AT BRUTUS CENTER 104 THE CENTER AT BRUTUS 104 LOGGING ON RED BIRD RIVER 105 A CROSSROADS STORE 105 ONE OF THE SLEDGES COMMONLY USED ON MOUNTAIN TRAILS INSTEAD OF WAGONS 105 RED BIRD CENTER 112 RED BIRD CENTER LIVING ROOM 112 NURSES WRITING UP THEIR RECORDS AT FLAT CREEK CENTER H3 FLAT CREEK CENTER 113 FORDING THE MIDDLE FORK 142 RED BIRD RIVER CENTER 142 MOTHERS COMING IN TO CLINIC 143 GIRLS BEING TAUGHT BABY CARE 143 MOTHERS CLUB AT RED BIRD 143 via NURSES ON HORSEBACK. Nurses on Horseback. CHAPTER I: DOWN in the Kentucky mountains snow was falling, late at night, in a lonely region cold and still, the giant beech trees white like ghosts and the small cottage on the hillside dark, its occupants asleep. But a dog began to bark in side, as a voice called up from the trail below Hello, nurses 1 Hello, hello I A window was opened, a nurse looked out and saw a man in an overcoat with a lantern on a shaggy mule. That you, Mr. Rainey Yes, My womans punishin mighty bad. We didnt aim to ask you to ride out on such a turrible night, but Thats all right Im used to it. Til be right
Book Synopsis South from Hell-fer-Sartin by : Leonard W. Roberts
Download or read book South from Hell-fer-Sartin written by Leonard W. Roberts and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties -- probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America -- Leonard W. Roberts recorded this rich collection more than three decades ago. To a people who, at that time, watched dancing hearth fires more often than television, the adventures of Jack in the land of witches and giants, monsters and beautiful princesses, provided first-class entertainment. Here are such old favorites as "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Golden Arm," retold in the idiom of the Kentucky mountains. Here are hauntingly beautiful cantes fables and earthy Irishman jokes. Here are encounters with Indians and marvelous hunting escapades. Roberts introduces his collection, first published in 1955, with a sympathetic description of the mountain way of life. He notes especially the bewildering and rapid changes that came to the Pine Mountain watershed in that decade as the highways and electric lines at last brought in a sophistication that preferred the soap opera to the folk tale. Although the stories Roberts recorded were still a firm part of folk tradition at the time, he believed that within a decade or two they would be forgotten -- a prediction, sadly, by now no doubt fulfilled. Any lover of the vanishing art of tale telling will relish this rich treasury of folklore and humor. Full notes on sources, types, motifs, parallels, and possible origins of the tales make this collection valuable also for folklorists.
Book Synopsis Mary On Horseback by : Rosemary Wells
Download or read book Mary On Horseback written by Rosemary Wells and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-10-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brought medical care to the Appalachians Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia and never looked back. Instead, she spent her life fording icy streams and climbing untracked mountains to bring medical help to those in need. More nurses on horseback joined Mary . . . and the Frontier Nursing Service was born. Mary’s story is amazing. And it is true. “Wells’s realistic yet poetic prose perfectly captures the dichotomy of the majestic beauty of Appalachia and the harsh realities of mountain life. . . . This one’s a gem.”—School Library Journal
Book Synopsis South from Hell-fer-Sartin by : Leonard Roberts
Download or read book South from Hell-fer-Sartin written by Leonard Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Nurses in Fiction by : Barbara Melosh
Download or read book American Nurses in Fiction written by Barbara Melosh and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Tales from the Hills and Hollers of Eastern Kentucky by :
Download or read book More Tales from the Hills and Hollers of Eastern Kentucky written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kentucky Stories by : Byron Crawford
Download or read book Kentucky Stories written by Byron Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons by Lamplight written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis If You Don't Laugh You'll Cry by : Claire Schmidt
Download or read book If You Don't Laugh You'll Cry written by Claire Schmidt and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to prison workers as they share stories, debate the role of corrections in American racial politics and social justice, and talk about the important function of humor in their jobs.
