The Nurse's Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936530465)

The Nurse's Story is a unique amalgam of real experiences and true stories, creatively merged into the character of Teri Daley, a young nurse with idealism, who feels a genuine "calling" to help others. Teri is a new nurse, a real nurse - a nurse like you, or someone you know - who encounters people and situations she could never have imagined when she dreamed of being a nurse. Teri wanted to help people, to save people, but what she found was unimaginable and heartbreaking, yet in the end was nothing short of inspirational.

"Passionate and emotionally riveting, this story is one you won't want to end."

With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips away the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse's life from it's early, optimistic, beginnings to the harsh realities (and incalculable rewards) that sustain her even in the face of a nurse's greatest professional hazard: BURNOUT.

• How can she help the family of a terminally ill patient when the doctor can do nothing more?
• What can she do for a 10 year old burn victim for whom most of consciousness is pain?
• How does she convince the doctor of her intuition that the patient cannot survive surgery?
• And how can she leave all of this behind at the end of her shift?