You may know their names, but do you know the stories behind the acclaim? Once again, the authors of Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession bring you the stories behind some of nursing"s living legends. Eleven leaders were selected for volume II of this bestselling series. Read howRichard Carmona transcended the poverty that threatened to engulf him, along with many of his childhood friends and family members from the ghetto, to become a nurse, a surgeon, and ultimately the surgeon general of the United States. Find out how M. Elizabeth Carnegie didn"t set out to right many of the wrongs of racial injustice in nursing and healthcare, but when she found herself faced with accepting the status quo or making a stand, she chose to stand and be counted, and count she did.