On Duty: A Nurse's Notes on Life and Death - Softcover

Fink, Carolyn Parnall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 044914965X ISBN 13: 9780449149652

Verlag: Gold Medal, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

A registered nurse captures the life-and-death drama of the hospital in a collection of true stories of nurses and their patients, from the corporate executive who installed a fax machine next to his heart monitor to a teenager paralyzed by a hit-and-run driver. Original.

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hing in this book happened. These are real nurses and real patients. . . ."
And the true stories that nurse Carolyn Fink gathers here are the real stuff of life, as lived by some unforgettable human beings and their nurses.
The con artist with the bogus bad back . . . The beautiful eighteen-year-old paralyzed by a hit-and-run driver . . . The shy Navajo grandmother who chose to sleep on the floor rather than in a hospital bed . . . The big shot who installed a fax machine next to his heart monitor . . . These and many others play their parts in this wonderful book and teach us much about ways of living and dying, the bitter ironies of fate, and the twin miracles of love and healing.

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hing in this book happened. These are real nurses and real patients. . . ."<br>And the true stories that nurse Carolyn Fink gathers here are the real stuff of life, as lived by some unforgettable human beings and their nurses. <br>The con artist with the bogus bad back . . . The beautiful eighteen-year-old paralyzed by a hit-and-run driver . . . The shy Navajo grandmother who chose to sleep on the floor rather than in a hospital bed . . . The big shot who installed a fax machine next to his heart monitor . . . These and many others play their parts in this wonderful book and teach us much about ways of living and dying, the bitter ironies of fate, and the twin miracles of love and healing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gold Medal
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 044914965X
• ISBN 13: 9780449149652
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar