A shocking, inspirational bestseller, Nurse is the story of eight weeks in the life of a nurse in a large urban hospital. It is all here: the joy and pain, the death and drama, the mistakes, successes, and secrets. Nurse reads like a novel, but sticks in the memory like real experience-because it is.
1. A Certain Day on Eight Cook
2. Reality Shock: The Acid Test of Nursing
3. Care: The Heart and the Hard Part
4. "Snowing": A Way Out
5. Thanksgiving Shift
6. Difficult Patients
7. Confrontations with Death and Dying
8. New Chances
9. The Problem of Sex
10. Weak Links, Tough Decisions: The Trials of Running a Staff
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"Startling...Intimate...True"
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer--
"A remarkable account of what life is like for a nurse thoughts, feelings, daily routines, life and death experiences, all are here"
--Publishers Weekly--