Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804118217)

A critical-care nurse in coronary and emergency medicine for eighteen years, Echo Heron has seen and heard it all. Here she recounts narratives of real-life medical dramas experienced by nurses across the country, sharing with us the inspiring, the tragic, and the outrageously funny: a penitentiary nurse who wasresponsible for orchestrating a murderer's execution; a stroke victim who rose out of his depression when his nurses began telling him jokes; and, perhaps the most riveting testimony, moment-by-moment memories of several nurses who served in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Filled with both tears and laughter and charged with the issues that afflict nursing care today, TENDING LIVES is a gripping, moving, inspiring book, a fitting tribute to a noble profession.

Author: Echo Heron
ISBN-10: 0804118213
ISBN-13: 9780804118217
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/30/1999
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 6.96h x 4.20w x 0.92d