{"product_id":"the-american-nurse-9781599621210","title":"The American Nurse","description":"\u003cp\u003e2012 Nautilus Silver Award  Photography\/Art category 2012 Indie Book Next Generation Award  Coffee Table Book\/Photography Foreword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year  Social Sciences  Finalist  This extraordinary book of 75 portraits  interviews  and biographies is the result of the American Nurse Project  an endeavor launched by Fresenius Kabi  a worldwide leader in infusion therapy  IV generic drugs  and clinical nutrition. Enlisting the talents of Carolyn Jones  an award-winning filmmaker and creator of numerous photography books  and her producer  Lisa Frank  the project set out to capture and share the images and stories of nurses from all across America and to celebrate the role of the nurse in this countrys health care system.  In The American Nurse  readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they may never have before  unless they have been under a nurses care. This body of work will inspire audiences to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community  and whose wealth of knowledge needs to be tapped in order to solve todays pressing health care issues.  The challenge of creating a rich portrait of nursing in America began with a map of the U.S. and a red pen. Carolyn Jones wanted to cover as much territory as possible  with the hope that along the way she would capture stories touching on the kinds of issues that nurses are dealing with in every corner of the country. Some of the issues might be specific to a particular area  like the nurses who were charged with evacuating patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Others would be universal no matter where Jones visited  such as nurses providing emotional support to patients and families to help get them through the toughest times in their lives.  The journey began in New York City  where Carolyn met nurses working in the district with the highest rate of hunger in the U.S.  as well as nurses doing health outreach to at-risk teens. She moved southward  stopping in Baltimore to meet nurses on the cutting edge of healthcare and nurse educators training the next generation  and then travelled to San Diego  where she met nurses at a VA hospital that is home to the largest concentration of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. In Louisiana  she went behind bars and met nurses dealing with prisoners; and in Riverton  Wyoming she learned about the health needs of the Native American population there. Having crisscrossed the country  from rural Eastern Kentucky to Florida to New Orleans to Nebraska to Wisconsin to San Francisco and Chicago  Jones presents a compelling portrait of a key figure on the front lines of health care today: the American nurse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280444219445,"sku":"ByrdShop_1599621215","price":34.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781599621210.jpg?v=1780636436","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-american-nurse-9781599621210","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}