Fifty, sixty, seventy-plus years of personal stories, gaffes, groans, giggles, guffaws; trials, tears, andtriumphs and life lessons from home, work and play.A thoughtful, serious and oftenhumorous memoir of life, family and nursing stories. It'll make you smile!

Thank God for the Cotton describes a twenty-three-year healing journey. The memoir is about the culmination of the promises of God over the lifetime of someone wanting to do right, thinking she was doing right, but missing the mark. Generational baggage creates unexplainable events for a young child and takes years to unpack. In Thank God for the Cotton, Dr. Smith describes her path to radical dependence on our Triune God as she lived the loss of visions and dreams.Cotton ...

Make parish nursing an alternative to shrinking healthcare resources!Because of shrinking healthcare resources, both human and monetary, parish nurses in the future will be called upon to deal with rising numbers of elderly and the end-of-life issues that accompany aging. Parish Nursing: A Handbook for the New Millennium is a guide to designing programs that can complement a congregation's ministry priorities for senior adults, identifying strengths to reinforce and weaknesses to a...