Thank the Nurse
Country Joe McDonald
From the liner notes:
"In 1981 while attending a conference on Post Vietnam War problems of
Vietnam Veterans Lynda Van Devanter, Vietnam War Nurse and author of
Home Before Morning, The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam,
accused the audience of 'ignoring women in the military.' I felt I was certainly
guilty of that in spite of the fact that I was ex-military myself. I promised Lynda I
would write a song for her. I did, it was 'The Girl Next Door.' I began to
research nursing and started with the life of the English woman credited with
inventing 'professional nursing' as we know it today, back in the Crimean War,
1854-1856: Florence Nightingale.
I wanted to write a Florence Nightingale song but it was years to come. As a
break from reading about the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and the
Vietnam War I took to reading a book about the famous American woman who
was a Civil War Nurse and the person credited with starting the American Red
Cross. This turned into the song 'Clara Barton.' Then one day lo and behold
out of blue came my Florence Nightingale song 'The Lady with the Lamp.'
I now had three 'war nurse songs.' I realized that I was in a rut. I felt bad that my
brother was a nurse practitioner and my wife a Labor and Delivery nurse but I
had no non-military nurse song. I was struck with the fact that nurses are
seldom given thanks for the work that they do. Nursing is often just taken for
granted. So after much thought and effort out came 'Thank the Nurse.'
'Thank the Nurse' has been very well received and has opened some very
interesting doors for me in the nursing world.
I have always wanted to advocate for people who seemed to be 'taken for
granted' and seemed to have no voice of their own in the public. So it has been
a very interesting and rewarding experience these last 20 years studying about
nursing and working on my Florence Nightingale web site.
Over the years I have sung my songs and talked about Florence Nightingale at
various Nursing events and slowly requests have built up for me to make up a
CD of the 'Nursing Songs.'"
1. The Girl Next Door
2. The Lady with a Lamp
3. Clara Barton
4. Thank the Nurse
RB1034N CD $10.00
Florence Nightingale Poster
Based on the 1857 pencil sketch by Sir George Schaft. Silk-screened in three colors on heavy stock, 16×22 inches.
A1075 Shipped in a mailing tube $20.00
Florence Nightingale Wood Ornament
The Lady with the Lamp design engraved by laser on a cherrywood ornament, 3"x4" oval.
A1034 Each $12.00
Breathless
Jeanne Bryner
Eighteen poems about nursing by Jeanne Bryner, a registered nurse at Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, Ohio and a Kent State University English major. Her poems have appeared in several literary magazines and anthologies. Beautifully printed by the Kent State University Press.
"Jeanne Bryner is an emissary from the true world, and her book Breathless is a satchel full of direct experience and genuine compassion." -- Timothy Russell
A1057 Paperbound, 26 pp. $10.00
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