Core Nursing Resources

Nurses are considered to be the backbone of the health care community. They perform hands-on and managerial duties. Learn more about the responsibilities of a nurse.

In this three-part series, we'll follow the real life experience of nurses at Massachusetts General Hospital. Each episode examines the challenges nurses face every day in their high pressure, life-impacting work. For example, a team of three nurses, Lindsay Coull, Jackie Baty, and Jennifer Connors, care for a heart attack survivor who faces the tragic experience of having his leg amputated. The patient, Doug Phelps, keeps the nurses busy as his need for care increases with the spread of a vicious infection. The nurses must not only medically attend to Doug, but they must emotionally support him through his struggles

Includes over 65 pediatric nursing skills on interactive CD-ROMs, providing comprehensive videos of procedures, and a "how-to" guide from preparation of the client and environment to documentation and outcomes

Discusses basic medical care given by health professionals including nutrition and urine and bowel elimination.

Betty Neuman, Callista Roy, Dorothea Orem, Dorothy Johnson, Florence Nightingale, Hildegard Peplau, Imogene King, Jean Watson, Margaret Newman, Martha Rogers, Myra Levine, Ida Orlando Pelletier, Madeleine Leininger, Martha Rogers, Reva Rubin, Rosemarie Parse, Virginia Henderson, Sr. Callista Roy

The Bag of Knees is a stirring documentary about nurses working on the ward. Based on interviews asnd footage from the operating rooms and clinics of today's hospitals, producer/director John Farreln gives you an inside view of the lives and careers of the real foot soldires in the health care profession