My fifty years in nursing

the long version

Few books convey the excitement and wide range of opportunities possible in a nursing career as well as Doris Schwartz's vivid memoirs of her long career as a pioneering public health and geriatric nurse. She brings readers from the tenements of Brooklyn, where her patients ranged from Italian immigrants to Mohawk Indians; to the U.S. Army, where she served as head nurse of an amputee ward and on a floating hospital in the Pacific Ocean; to Sweden, where Schwartz visited her rural patients by bicycle; to the Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky, where many patients could only be reached by horseback. Schwartz went on to Cornell University and later to the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent many satisfying years as a nurse educator, researcher, and writer. This book is informative and inspiring reading for practicing nurses and those considering a career in nursing.