Tenderly lift me : nurses honored, celebrated, and remembered / [compiled by] Jeanne Bryner.

Kent, Ohio ; London : Kent State University Press, [2004], ©2004.

Learning the body -- Standing there -- Side rails -- To the place of orchids -- Covering lilacs -- Elsewhere sparrows : a note to some physicians -- Teaching women to speak -- Village -- Story -- What has happened -- One nurse's job : eye recovery on a kindergartner -- Testimony -- A boat they float in -- Underground : a note to my brother, Kurt -- To save what we most love -- The evolution of light: East Liverpool, Ohio, site of the WTI incinerator -- Juba -- Letter to Josephine, 1996 -- Renaissance sketchbook : a woman's story -- Miscarriage : the nurse speaks to the baby -- For Maude Callen : nurse midwife, Pineville, South Carolina, 1951 -- Holding back the world -- Letter to Christine, girl baby found, Ohio hospital, 1958 -- How I lost my job as a staff nurse in 1969, because I was pregnant -- August delivery -- Hope chest : what the heart teaches -- On my gloves blood dries in a pattern like faded roses in wallpaper -- At dusk, two women trace a heart's river -- Letter to World War I surgeon Dr. Henry Russell, from Nurse Jeanette Price, September, 1929 -- What it cost to cross the Atlantic -- Becoming a nurse -- Breathless -- Body of knowledge : remembering diploma nursing schools, 1976 -- Letter from ward three -- Loving women -- This red oozing -- The labor of tenderness -- After the battle : in a room where we have tried to save a life -- Butterfly -- Mentally traumatized unit : nursing assignment, England 1942 -- To my town came a snow storm, nurse's diary, City Hospital of Cleveland, OH -- November 24, 1950 -- Call and response -- Birch canoe -- November 1963 -- At thirteen, I decide to become a nurse -- Warblers -- What nurses do : the marriage of suffering and healing -- School nurse -- Christmas is another moon -- When I tell my mother I want to be a doctor -- Pentimento -- Begin again -- Interview with Sister Denis of St. Joseph's Hospitallers Colony of Montreal, New France, 1694 -- Wait for morning : from Kate Cumming's journal -- Jane Stuart Woolsey, Union Nurse from camp, near Alexandria, 1862 -- Nurse's letter, May 30, 1864, Armory Square Hospital, WDC -- A tribute to Miss Rebecca Taylor upon retirement after thirty-four years -- Houses are burning : Belgium, 1915 -- If it weren't for ears -- The brain's soliloquy -- Clay pigeon -- In praise of hands -- Permissions -- Notes on the text -- Bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181).