TENDING LIVES: nurtures ON THE MED...

TENDING LIVES: nurtures ON THE MEDICAL FRONT by means of Echo Heron 1998, 341 pp $2495 hardcover

This main division presents 41 stories about the experiences of supply with nourishments and includes two written on the author. The nurses delineateed in this book practice in various areas (eg pressing necessity rooms, private homes, intensive care units, labor and delivery units) and relate memorable jiffys in their careers. This work caters to the segment of the population that is titillated by the agency of war stories (eg, the "I've been there and you wouldn't believe in what way gross, awful, horrific it was. Aren't I cool?" genre) that are unappealing.

The stories are short and frequently leave the reader wondering what happened to the patient or the supply with nourishment or why the nurse practiced or made decisions as described. I erect only one segment of the volume engrossing--the moment-by-moment description of a collection of emergency room nurses involved in the Oklahoma City bombing and its aftermath. This part of the work felt most true to the spirit of nursing and provided the chiefly inspiration; however, I was left wondering by what means those nurses ultimately fared.

There is and nothing else one story in the main division written by a perioperative feed at the breast and it is only a rehash of the stereotypical personalities in the OR. It grants nothing to the understanding of perioperative nursing or the challenges or pleasures of perioperative work.

near of the nurses in this work seem dissatisfied with their chosen profession. Many do not pretend to enjoy what they are doing nor have the impregnability of character to do the right thing, unruffled if that means standing up to the powers that be and making waves.

The author relates to what degree difficult it was to finish nurses to contribute to this volume She attributes this to nurses' fears of losing their piece of works I would suggest that the nourishs did not want to be associated with a work of this nature.

This work is available from Ballantine Publishing dispose 201 E 50th St, novel York, NY 10022; (212) 572-2098

HELEN STARBUCK PASHLEY RN MA, CNOR DENVER

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