When Chicken Soup Is Not Enough

The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by the award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advocacy isn't easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public. When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough brings together compelling personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad—and how they overcome them with skill, ingenuity, persistence, and individual and collective advocacy at work and in the community. In this collection, we meet RNs working at the bedside, providing home care, managing hospital departments, teaching and doing research, lobbying for quality patient care, and campaigning for health care reform. Their stories are funny, sad, deeply moving, inspiring, and always revealing of the different ways that nurses make their voices heard in the service of their profession. The risks and rewards, joys and sorrows, of nursing have rarely been captured in such vivid first-person accounts. Gordon and the authors of the essays contained in this book have much to say about the strengths and shortcomings of health care today—and the role that nurses play as irreplaceable agents of change.

This book represents an effort ... to address the needs of those individuals struggling to manage their anger. Once the origins of anger are explained, readers are given the tools necessary to help them choose an emotion, other than anger, that helps them be more assertive, helps them solve life's problems, and results in their being better parents and partners.-Back cover.

This common sense guide to health and well-being explains, in non-nonsense language, what makes us people sick and what keeps them well. This indispensable bestseller teaches readers how to unlock the door to permanent wellness through the mind-body connection. The book includes: A crossover the best of Western and Eastern medicine and hypnotherapy. Clear concise, readable and commonsense advice. Featuring new information on the integration of western medicine, mind-body healing and Chinese medicine. An expanded section on how to permanently cure panic disorder. Man new case histories on a variety of common health problems stemming from the mind-body connection.

The debut cookbook by the creator of the wildly popular blog Damn Delicious proves that quick and easy doesn't have to mean boring.Blogger Chungah Rhee has attracted millions of devoted fans with recipes that are undeniable 'keepers'-each one so simple, so easy, and so flavor-packed, that you reach for them busy night after busy night. In Damn Delicious, she shares exclusive new recipes as well as her most beloved dishes, all designed to bring fun and excitement into everyday cooking. From five-ingredient Mini Deep Dish Pizzas to no-fuss Sheet Pan Steak & Veggies and 20-minute Spaghetti Carbonara, the recipes will help even the most inexperienced cooks spend less time in the kitchen and more time around the table.Packed with quickie breakfasts, 30-minute skillet sprints, and speedy takeout copycats, this cookbook is guaranteed to inspire readers to whip up fast, healthy, homemade meals that are truly 'damn delicious!'

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 125 recipes for grain-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free comfort food dishes for holidays and special occasions NAMED ONE OF THE FIVE BEST GLUTEN-FREE COOKBOOKS OF ALL TIME BY MINDBODYGREEN When people adopt a new diet for health or personal reasons, they worry most about the parties, holidays, and events with strong food traditions, fearing their fond memories will be lost along with the newly eliminated food groups. After suffering for years with a debilitating autoimmune disease and missing many of these special occasions herself, Danielle Walker has revived the joy that cooking for holidays can bring in Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations, a collection of recipes and menus for twelve special occasions throughout the year. Featuring a variety of birthday cakes, finger foods to serve at a baby or bridal shower, and re-creations of backyard barbecue standards like peach cobbler and corn bread, Danielle includes all of the classics. There’s a full Thanksgiving spread—complete with turkey and stuffing, creamy green bean casserole, and pies—and menus for Christmas dinner; a New Year's Eve cocktail party and Easter brunch are covered, along with suggestions for beverages and cocktails and the all-important desserts. Recipes can be mixed and matched among the various occasions, and many of the dishes are simple enough for everyday cooking. Stunning full-color photographs of every dish make browsing the pages as delightful as cooking the recipes, and beautiful party images provide approachable and creative entertaining ideas. Making recipes using unfamiliar ingredients can cause anxiety, and while trying a new menu on a regular weeknight leaves some room for error, the meal simply cannot fail when you have a table full of guests celebrating a special occasion. Danielle has transformed her most cherished family traditions into trustworthy recipes you can feel confident serving, whether you’re hosting a special guest with food allergies, or cooking for a crowd of regular grain-eaters.

Unlike other books that deal with stress and illness, this one explains the critical role our unconscious mind plays in creating illness and injury and teaches us how to deal with it. This landmark book on what makes us sick and what keeps us well--is an indispensable, sure-fire best seller candidate on unlocking the door to permanent wellness through the mind-body connection.

When we go to the doctor, we want him to give us some kind of medicine that will make things right again: we want him to fix us because we don't like and don't have time for the nonsense of being sick. Like taking our car to the mechanic to be fixed, we describe the problem and wait for the mechanic to zero in and fix it. Unfortunately, unlike our cars. our bodies sometimes do quit running after an accident, because they are afraid to go back on the freeway, and they do get ulcers when they've. been tied up in a traffic bottleneck for two hours or when a jerk leaves a dent in their fender. Although we sometimes expect them to be fixed like machines, our bodies need more.Unlike tuber books dealing with stress and illness, this one explains the critical role our unconscious mind plays in creating illness and injury, and teaches us how to deal with it. This landmark book on what makes us sick and what keeps us well is an indispensable, sure-fire best-seller candidate on unlocking the door to permanent wellness through the mind-body connection.The best common-sense guide I've seen with respect to the role played by the unconscious in directing our lives. -- Dr. Stanford M. Shapero, former President of City of Hope National Medical CenterWhen Chicken Soup Is Not Enough is a down-to-earth, bottom-line look at how our thoughts, emotions and attitudes affect our health, sometimes dramatically. This book demystifies the mind-body connection. It will empower anyone seeking higher levels of health and fulfillment in their lives. -- Dr. Larry Dossey, Author of Be Careful What You Pray For Prayer Is Good Medicine and Healing Words.