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- Highway Hypodermics:
Your Road Map to Travel Nursing
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- Author: Epstein LaRue
- Reviewer: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
- Publisher: Star Publish
- Format: Adult, Nonfiction, Paperback, 148 Pages, 2005, $22.77
- ISBN: 1932993169
- Rating: * * * * Quills
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- Highway Hypodermics by Epstein LaRue may be a one-of-a-kind book. That is a rarity but apparently true. After a search on Amazon and a couple of other online bookstores, I found nothing on the subject of making "nursing-on-wheels" a career.
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- LaRue says she wrote this book so that a professional nurse "can make an informed decision about […] career change into travel nursing." But Highway Hypodermics will also be valuable for anyone considering a nursing career of any kind, for LaRue doesn't mince words. She tells all she knows about the distractions, difficulties and benefits of becoming any kind of a nurse, as well as fully informing readers about a nursing niche that few others could tell them about.
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- LaRue's strength is twofold. She speaks from experience — lots of it — and she speaks in a casual, straight-from-the-heart voice with impeccable honesty. My favorite chapters are those in which she reveals her own journals. By doing so, she opens a window into her world — both personal and her chosen career. We often look to memoirs to learn more about ourselves; perhaps all those considering nursing will find it an advantage to do that before they choose this difficult but rewarding field. By combining this mirror into her life with a how-to book, LaRue offers up a nursing guide like no other.
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