num_pages: 336
description: Do you still feel the passion to Help?Can you still see the miracles?orAre you exhausted by Burnout?Suffering Compassion Fatigue?National Bestseller! This book is a moving and important affirmation of courage. Of the power of Love and of tragedy redeemed by compassion. Here is a book that will shatter forever your casual assumptions about medicine doctors and especially about nurses.What can a nurse do for a ten-year old girl who is burned over most of her body for whom all consciousness is pain? She tries to comfort her to help release her from her torment while a zealous doctor tries to play God and repeatedly forces her back to lifeWhen a doctor can do nothing more for a terminal patient what can the nurse do for his family?After a particularly difficult day when a favorite patient dies how does she leave her work behind her and convince her own healthy children and husband of her love for them?Carol Gino has written a wonderfully moving book. She tells The Nurses Story with just the right blend of emotion compassion and wisdom. Harold S Kushner author of When Bad Things Happen To Good PeopleA shattering exhilarating book. A tribute to human dignity and courage. Mario Puzo author of The GodfatherGritty and honest. It has a fierce compassion. Martha Lear author of Heart Sounds.Riveting wrenching. Few nurses have experienced the range of cases this dedicate nurse describes: cancer burn unit emergency room birth brain damageThe writer is a vigorous optimistic caring woman. And she exudes frankness Los Angeles Times
language: English
title: The Nurse's Story
publisher: Aah-Ha! Books