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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “cortney davis”
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  • Learning to Heal

    Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose

    Edited by Bryner, Cortney Davis ...
    Series series Literature and Medicine
    What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again and provide historical context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the same?In ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leopold's Maneuvers

    by Cortney Davis ...
    Series series The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
    In the venerable tradition of caregivers writing about the healing arts—a tradition peopled by the likes of Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, and Denise Levertov—Cortney Davis brings to poetry the experience, insight, and compassion of a nurse practitioner who daily confronts the unexpected frailties, passions, and power of the flesh.Taking the body as her text, ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Taking Care of Time

    by Cortney Davis ...
    Series series Wheelbarrow Books
    For poet and nurse practitioner Cortney Davis, the truth revealed through poetry is similar to what she has experienced in the heightened and urgent dramas that occur in health care—those suspended moments in which a dying heart might be revived or unbearable suffering relieved. We are vulnerable, her poems say, and we are dependent on one another—on the ways in which we care or fail to care for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Some Things I Still Can't Tell You

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive

    101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...
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  • The Human Line

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    101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life through Positive Thinking

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  • Mules of Love

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  • Nightingale Tales

    Stories from My Life as a Nurse

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