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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 610.73 EAN: 9780804118217 ISBN: 0804118213 Label: Ivy Books Manufacturer: Ivy Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: January 30, 1999 Publisher: Ivy Books Release Date: January 30, 1999 Studio: Ivy Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Tending lives, nurses on the medical frontThis is one of the best books on nursing that I have ever read. Funny, interesting, touching. A unique variety or stories from nurses all over the country. I purchased the book as a gift for a friend who is in nursing school to give her an idea of some of the realitys of the job. Rating:  - Don't bother...I read exactly three chapters and gave up in disgust. Sensationalized & poorly written. This book is headed to the swap table at the dump. If you are looking for a well written account of what nursing is really like, read "Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines" by Suzanne Gordon Rating: - I loved this real portrayal of nursing!I first read this book when I was in RN school. I thought to myself, "What am I getting into?" But I loved the book, and I couldn't put it down! I loaned it to a friend and have since bought two more copies. Now that I have been an RN for a year, I see more of what the nurses in Echo Heron's book go through every day. And, even though I am worried about what the future holds for my profession as the nursing shortage looms above us, I have never been more proud of the title that I have. I love ... Read More Rating: - I checked the box in hopes of there being another cassetteI listened to this on tape, and found myself finding excuses to go somewhere in the car. This collection on vignettes from nurses around the country is captivating. Aside from the sadness, fear, frustration, and joy, you will laugh a lot. A theme that keeps coming up throughout the tape focuses on cutbacks made in the medical profession. Just when you are lost in a story, the "reality slap" of how the system has been altered reaches out and gets you. Although I appreciate this now, I think ... Read More Rating: - A true "touching" of the heart of nursingI love reading Echo's non-fictional stories the best and this one is great. I feel as if I'm in the story with similar situations in nursing. And I learn so much from the many situations. Echo and her writings have been an inspiration to me to keep fighting for patients "lack of rights" concerning personal care/staff. How I wish I had seen her ad to talk with her, what an honor that would have been. Thank you Echo. 
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