An Academic Nurses Tale: Trials, Tribulations & Travels. Archway Publishing. October 1, 2021

By Pamela Brink

My life as a registered nurse in California, Cincinnati, Ohio, Iowa City, Iowa and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada begin with my struggles with trying to decide what to do with my life as a teenager. I studied undergraduate nursing at Mount St. Mary's College in Santa Monica, California, graduate nursing in psychiatric nursing at Catholic University in Washington, DC and received my PhD in cultural Anthropology from Boston University.
My anthropology research fields were in rural Kentucky, the Northern Paiute of Nevada, and Nigeria.
My nursing research focused on diet and dieting.
I founded the Western Journal of Nursing Research and served as editor for almost 30 years. As a nursing editor and presenter of my research, I traveled to places in the world I never thought to see.
For me, nursing provided a fascinating and varied life.