The American Nurse by Carolyn Jones
2012 Nautilus Silver Award, Photography/Art category2012 Indie Book Next Generation Award, Coffee Table Book/Photography
Foreword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year, Social Sciences, Finalist
This extraordinary book of 75 portraits, interviews, and biographies is the result of the American
Nurse Project, an endeavor launched by Fresenius Kabi, a worldwide leader in infusion therapy, IV
generic drugs, and clinical nutrition. Enlisting the talents of Carolyn Jones, an award-winning
filmmaker and creator of numerous photography books, and her producer, Lisa Frank, the project
set out to capture and share the images and stories of nurses from all across America and to
celebrate the role of the nurse in this country’s health care system.
In The American Nurse, readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they may never
have before, unless they have been under a nurse’s care. This body of work will inspire audiences
to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community, and whose wealth
of knowledge needs to be tapped in order to solve today’s pressing health care issues.
The challenge of creating a rich portrait of nursing in America began with a map of the U.S. and a
red pen. Carolyn Jones wanted to cover as much territory as possible, with the hope that along the
way she would capture stories touching on the kinds of issues that nurses are dealing with in every
corner of the country. Some of the issues might be specific to a particular area, like the nurses who
were charged with evacuating patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Others would be
universal no matter where Jones visited, such as nurses providing emotional support to patients
and families to help get them through the toughest times in their lives.
The journey began in New York City, where Carolyn met nurses working in the district with the
highest rate of hunger in the U.S., as well as nurses doing health outreach to at-risk teens. She
moved southward, stopping in Baltimore to meet nurses on the cutting edge of healthcare and
nurse educators training the next generation, and then travelled to San Diego, where she met
nurses at a VA hospital that is home to the largest concentration of veterans from the Iraq and
Afghanistan conflicts. In Louisiana, she went behind bars and met nurses dealing with prisoners;
and in Riverton, Wyoming she learned about the health needs of the Native American population
there. Having crisscrossed the country, from rural Eastern Kentucky to Florida to New Orleans to
Nebraska to Wisconsin to San Francisco and Chicago, Jones presents a compelling portrait of a
key figure on the front lines of health care today: the American nurse.
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