Almost from its founding in 1871, Colorado Springs has been a city filled with health-seeking citizens. Community-minded progressive people built a thriving town at the foot of Pikes Peak. With the leadership of two prominent Methodist women, devout and progressive women of the city and the Pikes Peak region established Deaconess Hospital with a staff of Deaconess Nurses and student nurses in training, primarily caring for citizens with medical, surgical, and child bearing health concerns. Interrelated in this history is the impact of the social, community, environment technology, economy, evolving nursing education standards and health care realities in the story of Deaconess Training School, which became Beth-El School of Nursing at Beth-El Hospital. The city of Colorado Springs bought the hospital in 1943 and renamed it Memorial Hospital. In 1997, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences merged with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The dedicated community of women and alumni tells their stories through their recorded memories, newsletters, and documents. The school of nursing has struggled, and ultimately thrived, through the ever-present support and appreciation of the people of the Pikes Peak region. We are Beth-El Nurses: A Heritage of Caring at the Foot of Pikes Peak is our passionate community endeavor.

Arranged geographically, the journal provides those interested in a nursing career with employment opportunities. With 1993: each entry includes unique features of the hospital, as well as facilities and benefits.

In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging, and intimate portrait of health care's largest profession and the important role it plays in patients' lives. Life Support is essential reading for working nurses, nursing students, and anyone considering a career in nursing as well as for physicians and health policy makers seeking a better understanding of what nurses do and why we need them. For the Cornell edition of this landmark work, Gordon has written a new introduction that describes the current nursing crisis and its impact on bedside nurses like those she profiled in the book.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, has long profited from Pikes Peak and built an urban infrastructure to sustain that relationship. In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces. He examines the cultural values that have come to define the city, showing how military and other institutions, tourism, political and economic conditions, cultural movements, key individual actors, and administrative policies have created a singular urban personality. Capital accumulation has been a defining theme of Colorado Springs from its very beginning, with enormous profits generated from regional industrialization, railroads, land sales, water appropriation, and extraction of coal and gold. These conditions and its setting in the Rocky Mountain West formed a libertarian-oriented, limited governance philosophy. This persistent prioritization of liberty at the heart of Colorado Springs’s identity, specifically the freedom to conduct business and generate profits in a relatively unconstrained setting, has directed the urban sprawl of the built landscape and molded the region’s political culture. Profiting from the Peak will be of interest to historical and urban geographers, historians of Colorado and the American West, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the cultural identity of Colorado Springs.

Giving Through Teaching presents compelling stories of nurse educators and their students who have given their time, talents, skills, and resources to make the world a better place. Sharing stories from more than 70 nurse educators, this unique book inspires nurses to continue the work of their peers and to tell their own stories. Highlighting the efforts of U.S. nurse educators both at home and abroad-from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina to Iraq-the text showcases the diversity of the nursing profession itself. This collection of stories also examines how the knowledge and expertise of nurse educators can help to improve health care standards and achieve the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), such as improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. A must-have book for current and future generations of nurse educators, Giving Through Teaching: Explores global- and U.S.-based education partnerships, with stories of nurses working to improve schools, hospitals, and communities around the world Helps readers build interpersonal relationships with others Includes stories from nurse educators who have been honored by their peers, including Legends of the American Academy of Nursing and recipients of the International Council of Nurses International Achievement Award Will contribute funds raised from book sales to scholarships for future nursing students through the NLN Foundation (NLNF)