The Nurse's Story Author:Carol Gino The Nurse’s Story is one woman’s testament of passionate commitment, a moving and important affirmation of courage, of the power of love, and tragedy redeemed by compassion. — With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse’s life, from it’s early, optimistic beginnings to... more » 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 ten-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 major surgery at a given time? And how can she leave all this behind at the end of her shift?« less