This engrossing memoir describes sweeping changes in psychiatric medicine and nursing education. Though only sixty years have passed, mental health care and nurse's training have changed radically since the middle of the last century. This easy-to-read book provides an absorbing picture of care in mental health institutions and Registered Nurse education in the not-too-distant past. In 1950, Bob Higgins began training to become a Registered Nurse. At the time, nurses were not educated in universities, but within hospitals. Until the mid-fifties, there were no effective medications for the...
This engrossing memoir describes sweeping changes in psychiatric medicine and nursing education. Though only sixty years have passed, mental health ca...
Roast Beef in April is a journey into the heartwarming yet difficult life of a young boy and his family which takes place during the turbulent period surrounding the Great Depression and World War II. In this nostalgic memoir, young Bob takes you down his path of boyhood adventures during the 1930s and 40s. You will meet his family whose ancestry evolved from Irish and Slovak descent. You will get to know Pop who had little education but always managed to remain employed and optimistic and Mom who worked hard at the Endicott Johnson Shoe factory. They survived gas rationing, food shortages,...
Roast Beef in April is a journey into the heartwarming yet difficult life of a young boy and his family which takes place during the turbulent period ...