I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse [Paperback]

Author: Lee Gutkind | Language: English | ISBN: 1937163121 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
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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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• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: In Fact Books; 1 edition (April 9, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1937163121
• ISBN-13: 978-1937163129
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Nursing > Administration & Management
  • #5 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Administration & Management
  • #16 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Essays & Correspondence > Essays

This collection of essays really nails the essence of nursing. While there are essays about the "big two" of nursing--birth and death--there are also wonderful essays about the mundane but critical spaces in between. The nurse-writers reveal themselves to be competent, intelligent, caring, conflicted, and compassionate. The writing is very high quality and reveals a diversity of experience. As a nurse of 25 years, I can say that this book illuminated the spectrum of thoughts and feelings that I myself have had as a nurse. This would make a great gift to someone graduating as a nurse or contemplating becoming a nurse, but I recommend it for anyone who loves a good read about life. I'd love for doctors,administrators, and policymakers to read this collection. Nurses make the difference.

By K. Roberts

My Mother recently passed, after over two months in the hospital and a few days in hospice. I was fortunate to be able to temporarily leave my job to be with her and got to know some incredible nurses, who helped immeasureably in preserving her quality of life (whatever that was as she was dying from cancer and suffering from dementia.) One CNA, in particular, came to her bedside at the beginning of her every night shift, eliciting a response like that of a kid on Christmas morning woken by Santa Claus. This whole experience made me wonder how these wonderful nurses developed their empathy and understanding, while remaining sufficiently detatched to be good clinicians. This book answered my questions better than I could have ever expected. I call it only a tough read because of my recent experience, but reading it was an uplifting, life-affirming experience.

By Nancy Wrona

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