Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine
Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine

Author: Kristi L. Koenig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 785

ISBN-13: 1107040752

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This is the definitive reference on disaster medicine, outlining areas of proficiency for health care professionals handling mass casualty crises.

Operation Flight Nurse
Operation Flight Nurse

Author: David M Kaniecki Acnp

Publisher: David\Kaniecki

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780615839967

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Life-Flight-Teams are called to transport those in need of critical medical care to an institution capable of managing their condition. On occasion, life-altering events can be prevented from ever occurring, or measures may be taken by both patients and medical providers to reduce the impact these events have. This book was written for two reasons, to enlighten those curious about the flight-nurse profession and to share some take home lessons from these medical emergencies with the public, nurses, and EMS providers. The author is an acute care nurse practitioner for the Cleveland Metro Life Flight Team. After being asked frequently about his career as a life-flight nurse, David Kaniecki decided to answer this question by sharing his more memorable experiences as a life-flight nurse, linking each story to a teachable event. In his book, he describes many of his exciting adventures of critical care transport with various emergent disease processes. For those unfamiliar to critical care, he helps explain these diseases in an easy to understand format prior to sharing his story. David believes the greatest teaching methods are through real life experiences. After each story, he shares key lessons that can be taken away from these events.

The Flight Nurse Bible
The Flight Nurse Bible

Author: Robert Harris

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781725509535

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This is a "Field Guide" for aspiring and practicing Flight Nurses. Topic by topic, we get an inside look into the workings of elite Transport Medicine. This is the first complete subject breakdown "Field Guide" ever published about Flight Nursing.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Author: Jenny Lawson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1101573082

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The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Rising Above
Rising Above

Author: Chuck Bice

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781712157428

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When a former coach decides to become a flight medic, nothing can prepare him for the wild adventure of responding to medical emergencies. His real-life stories about the heroic efforts of EMS workers put you right on the scene in the midst of unbelievably dangerous and difficult situations. Some of his memories are laugh-out-loud recollections about the absurd side of human nature, and some will bring you to tears. Most of all, you'll be inspired to "rise above" your own life's challenges.

With or Without You
With or Without You

Author: Caroline Leavitt

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1643751433

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“Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free.” —People “With or Without You is a moving novel about twists of fate, the shifting terrain of love, and coming into your own. With tenderness and incisive insight, Leavitt spotlights a woman's unexpected journey towards her art.” —Madeline Miller, author of Circe A Best Book of the Month: Bustle * PopSugar New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt writes novels that expertly explore the struggles and conflicts that people face in their search for happiness. For the characters in With or Without You, it seems at first that such happiness can come only at someone else’s expense. Stella is a nurse who has long suppressed her own needs and desires to nurture the dreams of her partner, Simon, the bass player for a rock band that has started to lose its edge. But when Stella gets unexpectedly ill and falls into a coma just as Simon is preparing to fly with his band to Los Angeles for a gig that could revive his career, Simon must learn the meaning of sacrifice, while Stella’s best friend, Libby, a doctor who treats Stella, must also make a difficult choice as the coma wears on. When Stella at last awakes from her two-month sleep, she emerges into a striking new reality where Simon and Libby have formed an intense bond, and where she discovers that she has acquired a startling artistic talent of her own: the ability to draw portraits of people in which she captures their innermost feelings and desires. Stella’s whole identity, but also her role in her relationships, has been scrambled, and she has the chance to form a new life, one she hadn’t even realized she wanted. A story of love, loyalty, loss, and resilience, With or Without You is a page-turner that asks the question, What do we owe the other people in our lives, and when does the cost become too great?

Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf

Author: David Looseley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1781382573

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The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.

The Cultural Cold War
The Cultural Cold War

Author: Frances Stonor Saunders

Publisher: New Press, The

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1595589147

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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.