Review: Much More Than Nurse Humor, An Entire Education
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2012
I didn't know what I was in for when I picked up this delightful read. It is filled with  vignettes on the caliber of Reader's Digest, telling how nursing used to be. What an education.Yes, there are chuckles and the book is very light and entertaining. You can breeze through it, enthusiastically sharing it, laughing over the phone with your sister, like I just did. And, simultaneously, be amazed at how stringent nursing used to be.Nurses, up until fairly recently, used to have to clean patients' rooms as well as the operating theaters, cook special dinners for patients with dietary restrictions, pre-wash seriously soiled sheets, and much more. But there was time for nurse-patient bonding, life on a more humane level, and time for taking pride in a job well done.For a warm, loving, trip down memory lane if you are an "older" nurse of the "good old, bad old times," or a patient who yearns for TLC in the hospital experience today, this little book has it all. Highly recommended.