Caring lessons
Subtitle: a nursing professor's journey of faith and self
By: Lois Hoitenga Roelofs
Publisher: Deep River Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sisters, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781935265375
Subjects: Nurses; Biography; Nursing
Description: Imagine not wanting to be a nurse, teacher, or teacher of psychiatric nursing only to find yourself doing all three - and loving it! In Caring Lessons, Lois Roelofs tells her stories about being a rebellious ministers daughter, reluctant nurse, restless mom, perpetual student, and, eventually, fun-loving teacher. She used to tell her students that if she, an ordinary suburban sandbox mom, propelled by restlessness and prayer, could end up having a career, growing in faith, and getting a PhD, they could too. Roelofs brings the therapeutic use of self required in nursing to her writing. With a national shortage of registered nurses over a half million projected this decade and a shortage of nursing faculty that causes nursing programs to turn qualified applicants away, Caring Lessons will encourage readers to think about becoming nurses or stimulate nurses to think about becoming teachers, both of which would address these critical shortages. The main theme of the book is caring caring for others and caring for oneself.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A few notes on writing; title: PART ONE: DIPLOMA; title: 1. Sweet little hoitie; title: 2. A matter of attitude; title: 3. Shift work; title: 4. Rotten potatoes; title: 5. Running away; title: 6. Time-out; title: PART TWO: BACHELOR'S; title: 7. Finding a friend; title: 8. Diploma mentality; title: 9. Breaking the mold; title: 10. Bluffing it; title: PART THREE: MASTER'S; title: 11. Meeting Sadie; title: 12. Cleaning house; title: 13. Liverwurst; title: 14. Oscar Mayer weiner; title: PART FOUR: DOCTORATE; title: 15. Cogito ergo sum; title: 16. First shots; title: 17. Nothing physical; title: 18. Fancy title; title: 19. No surprises, be legal; title: 20. Sister Mary holy water; title: 21. Getting organized; title: 22. Sadie Tomczyk; title: PART FIVE: TENURE; title: 23. Going back; title: 24. Things I tried; title: 25. Storms of illness; title: 26. Cancer; title: 27. Trusting God; title: 28. On my way.