The Nurse's Calling: A Christian Spirituality of Caring for the Sick

by Mary Elizabeth O'Brien

Book Overview

In this caring, timely book veteran nurse researcher and nurse educator Mary Elizabeth O'Brien provides a spiritual perspective on the professional nurse's vocation of caring. Grounding each chapter in scripture from both Old and New Testaments, she beautifully explores the Christian nurse's call to love as Jesus loved: without discrimination, without reserve and sometimes without reward. In sharing some thoughts on favorite scripture passages that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809140098
• ISBN13: 9780809140091
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nursing as a Ministry

Again, Sr Mary Elizabeth O'Brien has writeen an excellent book. I give this book to nurses when they graduate. It truly puts nurses in an angelic and spiritual perspective which they deserve.