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Nursing Week - May 8-14, 2023

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Spotlight image adapted from Ontario Nurses' Association: https://www.ona.org/news-posts/nursing-week-2023 

Every year in May, we celebrate the Registered Nurses (RN), Registered Practical Nurses (RPN) and Nurse Practitioners (NP) who support us and our communities. The theme chosen by the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) this year "honour nurses who continue to provide care every day" (ONA Celebrates Nursing Week 2023, 2023).

To more deeply engage with the work of the nurses that do so much for us and for those around the world to provide care every day, we've put together a selection of resources at Humber Libraries for you to to explore that center nurses and the work they have done and continue to do to provide care every day. 

Here are some recently published books available online: 

• A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
• The Care Factor: A Story of Nursing and Connection in the Time of Social Distancing
• A Country Nurse: From Wave Hill to Rural Queensland and Almost Everywhere in Between
• At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
• In Our Own Words: Nurses on the Front Line
• Importing Care, Faithful Service: Filipino and Indian American Nurses at a Veterans Hospital
• More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State
• Pandemic Heroes and Heroines: Doctors and Nurses on the Front Line
• Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War
• The Rebel Nurse Handbook: Inspirational Stories by Shift Disruptors
• Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

If you prefer print books, here are some on campus:

• Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin. 
• A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse 
• Stories of Resilience in Nursing: Tales from the Frontline of Nursing
• Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care

And if you're interested in watching as well, these films and documentaries help move beyond the common movie portrayal of nurses as romantic figures for the male leads to fight over (yes Pearl Harbor, we are talking about you).

• The Death of Mr Lazarescu – streaming 
• In Case of Emergency – streaming 
• Precious - streaming
• Wit - DVD 

And if you are a current nursing student preparing for an NCLEX exam, don’t forget that Humber Libraries has many books and study guides to help you.