Blessed Hanna Chrzanowska, RN: A Nurse of Mercy by Gosia Brykczyńska, PhD, RN, OCV

Blessed Hanna Chrzanowska, RN: A Nurse of Mercy, is the only English biography about the first lay registered nurse to be beatified. It recounts the extraordinary life of a holy, 20th-century woman whose tireless efforts to serve her patients both medically and spiritually — even in the face of Communist oppression — changed Polish community healthcare provision and the worldwide Catholic Church’s approach to patients in the community. Blessed Hanna proved that by fulfilling her role as a committed Christian registered nurse you can not only have a successful nursing career but also obtain the joys of Heaven and be declared a saint.