Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession Volume II (Pivotal Moments in Nursing) (Pivotal Moments in Nursing)

You may know their names, but do you know the stories behind the acclaim? Once again, the authors of Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession bring you the stories behind some of nursing's living legends. Eleven leaders were selected for volume II of this bestselling series. Richard Carmona transcended the poverty that threatened to engulf him, along with many of his childhood friends and family members from the ghetto, to become a nurse, a surgeon, and ultimately the surgeon general of the United States. M. Elizabeth Carnegie didn't set out to right many of the wrongs of racial injustice in nursing and healthcare, but when she found herself faced with accepting the status quo or making a stand, she chose to stand and be counted, and count she did. Leah Curtin, known to many as the "mother of nursing ethics," first made her name as a young fossil-hunter who discovered several previously undocumented brachiopods, but her best work came later as she stepped up to ask the hard questions and put ethics center stage in nursing and healthcare. Imogene King is an internationally recognized nurse theorist whose landmark works have been read by generations of nurses and have literally changed nursing education and practice in several countries. Ruth Watson Lubic made families the focal point of her career, helping to establish legendary birthing centers in the United States, and went on to become the first nurse awarded the MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Margaret McClure decided to ask what made nurses stay in certain hospitals? instead of the more traditional approach of asking what made them leave. This question ultimately led to what is now universally known as the Magnet Recognition Program. Marla Salmon was a hippie who was compelled by upbringing and compassion to try to change the plight of the underserved and marginalized peoples of the world. She has done this