Annotated Bibliography: Images of Nurses in Literature

Annotated Bibliography


1. Book, at least two authors

Ellis, J.R., & Hartley, C.L. (1995). Nursing In Today’s World: Challenges, Issues,
and Trends (5th ed.). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippineott Company.

Nurses should be concerned with the negative and incorrect image portrayed in literature.


2. Article or chapter in an edited book

Fielder, L.A. (1983). Images of Nurses: Perspectives from History, Art, and Literature.
In Jones, A.H. (Ed.), Images of the Nurse in Fiction and Popular Culture (pp. 100-112). New York: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Different characters in literature give different positive and/or negative effects on the image of nursing.


3. Journal article

Lohne, V. (2001). Hope in patients with spinal cord injury: A literature review related to
nursing. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 33, 317-331.
Nursing literature lacks mentioning the concept of hope: hence, the i...