num_pages: 128
description: Mr. Kelly was dead. My eyes fixed on my once breathing talking alert and oriented patient who was now pale still without emotion lying on his hospital bed. I was four hours into my first shift as a nurse with my own patient but this was not how I pictured my career starting. My first patient my only patient of the night my sole responsibility had died four hours into my first shift flying solo. This couldn't be happening. For Dani Jacobs an emergency room nurse experiencing death is almost an everyday occurrence. As a young nurse Dani wants only to stop death and help give his patients a chance at life. Yet as each code blue comes into his life a new struggle begins to burden the young nurse. Follow Dani along the highs and lows with his patients as he faces what he fears most in life death. 
language: English
title: Nurse Life and the Next Life: A Nurse's True Stories of Life versus Death in the Emergency Room
publisher: Blue Llama Publishing LLC