num_pages: 180
description: 2012 Nautilus Silver Award Photography/Art category 2012 Indie Book Next Generation Award Coffee Table Book/PhotographyForeword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Social Sciences FinalistThis extraordinary book of 75 portraits interviews and biographies is the result of the American Nurse Project an endeavor launched by Fresenius Kabi a worldwide leader in infusion therapy IV generic drugs and clinical nutrition. Enlisting the talents of Carolyn Jones an award-winning filmmaker and creator of numerous photography books and her producer Lisa Frank the project set out to capture and share the images and stories of nurses from all across America and to celebrate the role of the nurse in this countrys health care system.In The American Nurse  readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they may never have before unless they have been under a nurses care. This body of work will inspire audiences to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community and whose wealth of knowledge needs to be tapped in order to solve todays pressing health care issues.The challenge of creating a rich portrait of nursing in America began with a map of the U.S. and a red pen. Carolyn Jones wanted to cover as much territory as possible with the hope that along the way she would capture stories touching on the kinds of issues that nurses are dealing with in every corner of the country. Some of the issues might be specific to a particular area like the nurses who were charged with evacuating patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Others would be universal no matter where Jones visited such as nurses providing emotional support to patients and families to help get them through the toughest times in their lives.The journey began in New York City where Carolyn met nurses working in the district with the highest rate of hunger in the U.S. as well as nurses doing health outreach to at-risk teens. She moved southward stopping in Baltimore to meet nurses on the cutting edge of healthcare and nurse educators training the next generation and then travelled to San Diego where she met nurses at a VA hospital that is home to the largest concentration of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. In Louisiana she went behind bars and met nurses dealing with prisoners; and in Riverton Wyoming she learned about the health needs of the Native American population there. Having crisscrossed the country from rural Eastern Kentucky to Florida to New Orleans to Nebraska to Wisconsin to San Francisco and Chicago Jones presents a compelling portrait of a key figure on the front lines of health care the American nurse.
language: English
title: The American Nurse
publisher: Welcome Books