Thinking As A Nurse
Bruce Austin Scott grew up in the South, down the street from William Faulkner’s brother, Murray, in a family of six, wanting to be an architect or journalist. He floundered in his first attempt at college, joined the Navy, and as a hospital corpsman worked alongside nurses. Out of the service, he completed a B.S.N. at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and an M.S.N. at The University of Texas at Austin. He taught in six nursing programs before settling in for the last 13 years at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California where he maintains a clinical practice in medical-surgical nursing at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center. He has contributed to and reviewed many nursing publications but has never tried his hand at a book until Thinking as a Nurse. Bruce is the divorced father of four children: Martha, Luke, Hope and Julie. He likes long flat-surface bike rides, swimming freestyle across a sunlit pool, and playing golf when there's no waiting on the tees.