I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse - Softcover

 
9781937163129: I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1937163121 ISBN 13: 9781937163129
Verlag: In Fact Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care.

Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps them in the profession.

The stories reveal many voices from nurses at different stages of their careers: One nurse-in-training longs to be trusted with more “important” procedures, while another questions her ability to care for nursing home residents. An efficient young emergency room nurse finds his life and career irrevocably changed by a car accident. A nurse practitioner wonders whether she has violated professional boundaries in her care for a homeless man with AIDS, and a home care case manager is the sole attendee at a funeral for one of her patients.

What connects these stories is the passion and strength of the writers, who struggle against burnout and bureaucracy to serve their patients with skill, empathy, and strength.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Editor Lee Gutkind has been exploring the world of medicine through writing for over 20 years. He is the author of Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation, and the editor of multiple anthologies about health and medicine: Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives; Rage and Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution; Healing; Becoming a Doctor; and An Immense New Power to Heal. He is the founder and editor of the magazine Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary journal to exclusively publish nonfiction, and has also published the essay collection Forever Fat and two books on writing, The Art of Creative Nonfiction and Keep It Real, among other titles. Gutkind is currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.

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Verlag
In Fact Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1937163121
ISBN 13 
9781937163129
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Gutkind Lee
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