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Extraordinary Nursing Book for Nurses Week

By Anonymous

April 3 2004--Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute by Michael Zwerdling, R.N.; Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2004.

National Nurses’ Week is May 6-May 12. With over 6 million nurses in the United States, there is still a critical need for more. Postcards of Nursing inspires those already in the profession and those who might be considering it. At a time when the health-care profession is so clearly in the spotlight, it’s nice to be able to give credit to the men and women who make up the backbone of the profession--with a book that not only entertains but educates.

Zwerdling, a registered nurse who works in a Washington, DC emergency room, as well as an expert in historic graphics, has done an excellent job of relating cultures from around the world to the field of nursing. He shows how the discipline has changed through the decades and illustrates this with wonderful art postcards (all the recognized styles of the 20th century, from art nouveau to manga) and photographic postcard images. No other format has depicted nursing with such scope and diversity.

Postcards of Nursing offers material unavailable in any other nursing history or nursing art publication. So many points have been highlighted,little known facts discovered, and interesting pieces of history made clear, from the royals to the peasants, from the battlefield to the crisp hospital operating rooms. It gives the casual reader as well as the healthcare professional a unique glimpse into this largely unheralded segment of the health-care field, and acts as a visual history of a profession that is quite unlike any other.

The book is hardbound, 9 x 12,with 384 pages and 640 full-color images. It is available from major bookstores, or online from www.nurspostcard.com (which has illustrations and excerpts from the book). It is also available from the author, who is offering autographed copies postpaid at $65. Michael Zwerdling can be reached by mail at
P.O. Box 917, Burtonsville, MD 20866, by phone at (301)890-0619, or by email at zna@nursepostcard.com





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