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A Splendid Gift - by Barbara Elle Prisceaux (Paperback)

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  • "A forthright, poignant, and heartwarming account of a storied and beloved career in nursing.
  • Author(s): Barbara Elle Prisceaux
  • 196 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Medical (incl. Patients)

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"A forthright, poignant, and heartwarming account of a storied and beloved career in nursing." - Kirkus Reviews

"...a powerful memoir that holds the uncommon ability to transcend personal experience alone..." - Midwest Book Review

A Splendid Gift: Celebrating 60 Years in Nursing tells the story of Barbara Elle Prisceaux, who turned a childhood dream into an extraordinary career.

As a young girl in Yonkers, New York, Barbara was drawn to the nurses walking from their residence at the end of her block to the hospital several streets away. She decided then and there that she would become a nurse too by age fifteen, when her family was living in West Lawn Pennsylvania, she accepted a part-time nurse's aide position at St. Joseph's Hospital in Reading, and she bused twenty miles each way after school, and sometimes, on weekends. At eighteen, she was accepted into the School of Nursing at Bellevue Hospital, Class of 1962.

Including two enlistments in the Army Nurse Corps Reserves, Barbara spent most of her career on the West Coast. In 2003, she moved from California to Central Florida and changed her patient care focus from Emergency and Critical Care to Oncology Nursing.

Combining her nursing career with her love of writing, Barbara developed and coordinated educational programs in Critical Care; designed legal defense protocols for Renal Transplant litigations; cofounded Paper Chasers Medical-Legal Consultations; edited documents for Northern California District Attorneys Association, and as an Oncology Certified Nurse in Florida, specialized in clinical research and advocacy for oncology patients and their families.

Throughout her six-decade career, Barbara met challenge after challenge head-on, from ever-changing technology to hospital politics. When she retired at the age of seventy-seven, she was working two 12-hour shifts each week, providing hands-on care to patients in a medical center eighty miles from her home.



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"...a powerful memoir that holds the uncommon ability to transcend personal experience alone, adding to its value the elements of charting a history of the changing medical community and its standards of care...Libraries and readers seeking insights into these pivot points, what influenced them, and how nurses adapted to and embraced constantly-changing duties and roles will find A Splendid Gift an informational, celebratory, appreciative examination of nurses and their world." - Midwest Book Review

"A naturally engaging storyteller, Prisceaux stuffs her memoir with anecdotes, stories, opinions, and seasoned perspectives, spanning the best and worst moments of the author's 60-year nursing career...Nurses in general-as well as those suffering from career burnout-will find much inspiration and encouragement in the author's tender, droll, humorous, and immensely moving stories about the intense work regimen, the personal struggles, and the often bittersweet but fulfilling patient interactions. A forthright, poignant, and heartwarming account of a storied and beloved career in nursing." - Kirkus Reviews


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .53 Inches (D)
Weight: .59 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 196
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Medical (incl. Patients)
Publisher: Indigo River Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Barbara Elle Prisceaux
Language: English
Street Date: September 19, 2023
TCIN: 94574497
UPC: 9781954676534
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-9028
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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