Burn Unit Nurse

1. AOA Health Dose: Wound and Burn Care: Barbara E. Walker, DO, an osteopathic family physician, explains how to care for burns and minor wounds such as cuts and scrapes.
2. Behind the Breakthroughs: Lavelle Grub, burn center nurse, talks about how burn treatment has progressed over the years.
3. Burn Patient Honors Nurses Who Saved Her Life: Katie Niemeyer, a 1988 Barnes-Jewish Hospital burn unit patient, shows gratitude to four dedicated nurses who saved her life when she developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS).
4. Expanding Care to Patients of Severe Burns: Watch how Operation Smile is currently working in Vietnam to help patients suffering from severe burns.
5. Soldiers Get Virtual Reality Therapy for Burn Pain: University of Washington researcher Hunter Hoffman has developed a cool virtual reality game that has actually been shown to make the excruciating rehabilitation fun.

Emergency Nurse

1. Campaign for Nursing’s Future — Emergency Room Nurses: “Charm” Nursing commercial highlighting emergency room nurses on behalf of The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future.
2. Day in the Life: ER Nurse: Will Cristobal discusses what it is like to be an Emergency Room Nurse and the path he took to become a nurse.
3. Emergency Nurses Association — ENA Introduction: This video provides both an introduction and refresher for current and prospective members of the Emergency Nurses Association.
4. Emergency Nursing at Methodist Hospital: In the emergency department at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana’s busiest Level 1 Trauma Center, there is a wide range of nursing career opportunities.
5. Emergency Room Nurse Career Interview: An emergency room nurse discusses her typical day at work, the qualifications needed for the job, the best and worst parts of the job, and advice that can be used by students considering this line of work.

Pediatric Nurse

1. Do you want to be a pediatric nurse? In order to be successful at nursing and pediatrics you need to know where to start. This short video shows what you need.
2. Medical Careers: How to Become a Pediatric Nurse: Learn to become a pediatric nurse with tips from a practice administrator in this free video on career information.
3. Nursing Jobs: What Is Pediatric Nursing? Learn about the environment that pediatric nurses work within with help from a licensed RN in this video on nursing jobs and health care.
4. Pediatric Nurse: Few professional assignments are more rewarding than pediatric nursing in an acute care environment…but the challenges facing new nursing school graduates are formidable.
5. Pediatric Nursing: This is a Health Care Careers project that explains salary, job skills and more.

Geriatric Nurse

1. Become a Geriatric Care Manager: From geriatric nursing, gerontology, social work and case management, many have decided to become geriatric care managers.
2. Connie Davis discusses Geriatric Nursing Assistant Certificate: Davis is the director of Southwest Virginia Community College’s Geriatric Nursing Assistant Program.
3. Limitless Possibilities — Penn State Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence: Hospitals, primary-care, public health, home care, long-term care – all of these settings serve older Americans and need geriatric nursing expertise.
4. NYU nursing students and the need for geriatric specialists: This is a FOX news segment on the need for geriatric nurses, interviews at NYU.
5. What makes a great nursing assistant? Residents in long term care talk about what makes a good nursing assistant a great one.

Forensic Nurse

1. CSI Career College — Be A Nurse: CSI Career College offers a fast-track nursing program for Vocational Nursing. learn more through this short video.
2. CSI Nurses: Find out how Community Regional Medical Center is keeping up with the rising interest in crime scene investigation.
3. Forensic Nurse Stories — An Unforeseen Ending: A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) tells the story of a patient who she will never forget.
4. Forensic Nurse Week: Nursing staffs and memeber of the American Psychotherapy Association show their support for Forensic Nurse week by wearing lilac on Friday, November 13, 2009.
5. UTHSC Forensic Nursing Student Interviews: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Nursing offers an online program of study leading to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Forensic Nursing.

Anesthetist Nurse

1. Career Project: Nurse Anesthetist: A school project that outlines this career choice with salary information, educational requirements and more.
2. How to Get Medical Jobs: How to Become a Nurse Anesthetist: Learn about the qualifications to become a nurse anesthetist with tips from a medical administrator in this video on career information.
3. Introduction to Becoming a CRNA: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist: Nursing educator Michele G. Kunz discusses the CRNA career and discusses some of the steps to get started as a CRNA.
4. Nurse Anesthetist Master’s Program, U. of Md: The University of Maryland School of Nursing has one of the top educational curricula in nursing anesthetists.
5. Nurse Anesthetists: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists are highly trained advanced nursing professionals and have been giving anesthesia for over 100 years.

Military Nurse

1. ARMY MEDICINE: Nurses: Meet three people who made Army nursing their career — a critical care RN, a medical surgery orthopedics nurse and civilian nurse who joined the Army.
2. CCATT Nurse: Major Vedder explains her experience as being a Critical Care Air Transport Team Nurse in the Air Force Reserve.
3. Military Health — Nurse Shortage: The military’s top doctor, S. Ward Casscells, discusses the need for more nurses in the military.
4. Nurse Serves In Afghanistan Combat: NATO illustrates the challenges faced by nurses and other medical professionals practicing emergency medicine as part of MERT NATO teams in Afghanistan.
5. U.S. Navy — Nurse Benson: This is just one video of many in the America’s Navy YouTube channel arsenal.

Nurse Practitioner

1. Career Highlights: Nurse Practitioner: Julie Larson, a Nurse Practitioner with Hancock County Memorial Hospital (Britt, IA), gives the Iowa Hospital Association some insight into what a nurse practitioner does and what kind of person becomes interested in this type of career.
2. Nurse Practitioner Business Owner: This is an entire YouTube network focused on the NP profession.
3. Nurse Practitioner Programs, Salary and Career: The Ultimate Guide: HD film about nurse practitioner / FNP job description, average salary, and online degree programs from accredited schools.
4. Nurse Practitioner: Start Your Own Practice #1: You want to open a practice, but that wasn’t a course in your graduate education. NPBusiness.com provides a video to help you get started.
5. What is a Nurse Practitioner? The role of a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner (NP-PHC) is explained.

Nurse Midwives

1. Certified Nurse Midwives: This video focuses on the benefits of CNM-assisted births.
2. Focus On Health: Midwives: Connie Carmical interviews midwife Jackie Pierce and her patient Kimberly Van Sistine about the modern midwife and the benefits of having a midwife deliver your baby.
3. Midwives and Moms: The Orange County Health Department Certified Nurse Midwives help families embrace this time by offering a personal and loving setting for women as they being their journey into motherhood.
4. Nurse Midwife: A nurse midwife has her hands full with a complicated delivery as a couple gives birth to their second child.
5. The choice to become a nurse-midwife: Learn how Aurora caregivers are taking action to reduce Wisconsin’s high infant mortality rate through community outreach. The Midwifery and Wellness Center at Aurora Sinai Medical Center attends 450-500 births each year.

Public Health Nurse

1. Introduction to Communicable Disease Nursing: Interesting video produced by the Department of Defense in 1975.
2. Making a Difference: Advanced Public Health Nursing Practice: The rewards of being an advanced community/public health nurse are in making a difference in the lives of an entire group of people, often those who are most vulnerable.
3. Public Health Nurse: Listen to Che talk about his job as a public health nurse.
4. Public Safety & Public Health Nursing: Public health nurse Jan Wallinder, RN, MSN, talks about the nurse’s role in planning community safety strategies.
5. Why Choose Public Health Nursing? Dietra Wynn, RN, BSN, MSN discusses her career choice, the benefits of becoming a community health nurse.

To help, we have gathered 25 e-Books every nurse should download. Not only are they easier on your shelf case and better for the environment, these e-Books often come with a lower price tag and in some cases are even free.

Free e-Books Every Nurse Should Download

These e-Books have the best price tag and can help in any nursing education or career. Use caution whenever downloading anything from over the web.

1. Notes on Nursing
   Florence Nightingale is the first name in nursing and wrote a book on the subject. A must read for all nurses, it includes what nursing is and is not. Using a commonsense approach that can still be utilized today, she proposed a thorough regimen for nursing care in hospitals and homes.

 

2. Dietetics for Nurses
   Ever had someone tell you that you are what you eat? They must have read this book on prevention through diet. The instilling of good diet habits is taught to nurses and patients in this nearly 500 page e-Book.

 

3. Nurse Pocket Guide
   The e-Book includes diagnoses, prioritized interventions, and rationales for nurses. In its 12th edition, many nurses turn to it for information. Available to download from several sites.

 

4. Nursing Diagnosis Manual
   This book is available to download chapter by chapter. A few samples include respiratory rate, nursing assessment, and wound care. The bloggers at Nursing Care Plan also offer other resources.

 

5. How to Nurse Sick Children
   If going into pediatrics, this e-Book is a must for every nurse. It is intended especially as a help to the nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children but contains directions which may be found of service to all who have the charge of the young. Read the entire work on Google Books.

 

6. Bedlam Among the Bedpans
   Need some nursing related humor? Then check out this book by Amy Y. Young for just that. This site features the first 35 pages for free, or you can purchase as an entire e-Book from the usual dealers.

 

7. Tending Lives
   Echo Heron writes this book at nurses on the medical front. Ranging from inspiring to tragic to outrageously funny, these narratives are real life medical dramas as experienced by nurses across the country. There are also other related books to download.

 

8. Applied Psychology for Nurses
   If you are a nurse going into psychology, this is a must read. Mary Porter shares her early experiences in a neurological and big city hospital. Also useful for other students in the mental health area.

 

9. Gray’s Anatomy for Students
   This is one of the first names to come to mind when thinking of medical books. This special edition is just for students. There are three different ways to download it from this site.

 

10. Nurse’s Drug Handbook
    Jones and Bartlett Learning are the makers of this book. It includes the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Must download software in order to download e-Book.

 

11. The Student Nurse’s Bible
    Download this book to get useful tips and advice just for student nurses. Peter Conway shares more from his own experience. You can also read it online or in a variety of other forms.

 

12. Notes on Hospitals
    Florence Nightingale again returns in this e-Book. Think hospitals are bad now? Then read this public domain book to see how bad they were back then. There are also specific passages highlighted for the reading with a scroll down.

 

Paid e-Books Every Nurse Should Download

If you have a couple of bucks or more to invest in your nursing education – and you should – check out these nurse e-Books organized mostly by current price.

1. The Nurse’s Survival Guide
   Emily T. Fisher provides this story with a light beyond the chaos of nursing. Written especially for nurses and professionals, it speaks to the “New Age of Nursing.” Grab $9.44 and get an inside look at the true purpose of nursing.

 

2. Highway Hypodermics
   If interested in broadening your nursing career through travel, check out this $11.99 e-Book. Written by Epstein LaRue, she shares her own experiences as a travel nurse as well as many tips for the journey. There are also other e-Books for nurses here.

 

3. Nurse’s Pocket Drug Guide
   Nervous about downloading the free version listed above? Then spend $12.29 to get the 2011 version from Judith A. Barberio. It contains everything a nurse needs to know about 1,000 common medications.

 

4. Medical Surgical Nursing Demystified
   Mary Digiulio is a nurse practitioner who has worked as a medical-surgical nurse for many years. In this $14.11 book, she takes on the subject of medical-surgical nursing in a painless way that is practical for every student interested in or intimidated by the field. The book features a full chapter for each system–cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, hematologic, and all the others.

 

5. RNotes
   If you have a Kindle or compatible device, you can have this e-Book added to your library for $14.97. Both nursing educators and students use the guide for the delivery of safe and effective health care in hospital and home settings. In its second edition, the book offers quick find, functionality, and more of the commonly-used but rarely memorized clinical information that thousands of nurses and students refer to daily.

 

6. How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School
   This e-Book was written by nursing students for nursing students and includes valuable tips for getting an education. In its third edition, you can purchase for $15.00. You can also check out Course Smart for many other education materials.

 

7. Your First Year as a Nurse
   With loads of books on how to study nursing, this e-Book stands out for laying out what to expect during your first year of actual nursing and how to go from a novice to a successful professional. Donna Cardillo shares her knowledge in this $15.99 book and even on her blog.

 

8. Critical Conditions :The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive
   Author Martine Ehrenclou got an education no one wants when she was forced to look after loved ones in several different hospitals. In this award winning book, she shares how to be your loved ones best advocate and shares over 150 interviews with doctors, nurses, social workers, and families. Get a preview here, or spend $19.95 to read the entire work.

 

9. Davis NCLEX-RN Q & A
   Having trouble studying for the NCLEX? Then grab this e-Book from F.A. Davis Company to get over 1,500 questions that can help you prepare for it. For $19.99, it is especially for Apple and Android devices.

 

10. Fast Facts for the Medical Office Nurse
    If studying to become an office nurse, this e-Book can tell you “what you really need to know in a nutshell.” Topics include location, reimbursement, role, and care provided. Sheila Richmeier has many years of experience in health care and offers this book for $20.99.

 

11. Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination
    If the other e-Book isn’t cutting it , click here. This one has a complete content review and over 4,500 NCLEX examination-style questions in the book. The e-Book runs at $36.09 and includes detailed rationales to help you learn from your answer choices

 

12. Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination and Practice Preparation
    If studying to become an NP, or nurse practitioner, there is also a daunting exam to pass. Grab this e-Book from Margaret A. Fitzgerald and $43.16. With many user reviews ranking it positively, it can help students hone diagnostic and treatment reasoning skills as well as thoroughly prepare for the exam.

 

13. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook
    Betty J. Ackley heads up this evidence guide to planning care. It includes the 8th edition text and is a must for many nursing students. It is currently selling as a package text and e-Book for $77.95.

 

Remember to use caution whenever following any of the advice read in the above 25 e-Books every nurse should download. Please consult a physician in the event of a medical situation or before changing a prescription plan.