"Modern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of nurses was equal to demand. Whether the complaint was too many or too few, there has been little satisfaction with the number of nurses working at any point of time since the inception of American professional nursing. Nursing the Nation offers a historical analysis of the relationship between the development...

Embarazada, abandonada y perdida en medio de una tormenta de nieve en Texas, Savannah Grayson agradeció que el millonario ganadero Mike Calhoun la rescatase. El viudo, padre de un niño de tres años, le ofreció refugio en su enorme rancho. Decidido a no entregar su corazón a una mujer nunca más, Mike intentó controlar la atracción que sentía por su invitada. Mientras pasaban días helados haciendo muñecos de nieve con su hijo y noches charlando...

"Jest rok 1941, dwie przyjaciółki, Audrey i Lizzie, jako wyszkolone pielęgniarki zgłaszają się do wojskowych oddziałów lotniczej ewakuacji rannych i zostają wysłane do Anglii, gdzie dołączają do zespołu, który wykonuje niebezpieczne misje, sprowadzając żołnierzy z frontu."-- Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there....

Crippled both physically and emotionally by his war injuries, First Lt. Gilbert Ballard struggles to find himself again in civilian life. After breaking his engagement to Annemarie Kendall, he has found solace in the arms of Mary McClarney, a spunky Irish immigrant nurse he met at the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Yet Marys love for Gilbert goes unreturned.

Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the war.