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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1.a edición.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Ruth Jefferson es enfermera en la sala de partos de un hospital de Connecticut, una profesional con más de veinte años de experiencia. Ruth empieza su turno con el reconocimiento rutinario de un recién nacido, pero unos minutos después le comunican que el niño tiene otra enfermera. Los padres son supremacistas blancos y no quieren que Ruth, que es de origen africano, toque a su pequeño. El hospital satisface sus deseos, pero al día siguiente...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xx, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the black doctors and nurses who tended to Civil War soldiers in the capital. Just as African Americans fought in defense of the Union during the Civil War, African American nurses, doctors, and surgeons worked to heal those soldiers. In the nation's capital, these brave healthcare workers created a medical infrastructure for African Americans, by African Americans. Preeminent surgeon Alexander T. Augusta fought discrimination,...
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