The Nurse's Story

With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips away the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse's life from it's early optimistic beginnings to 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 10 year old burn victim for whom most of consciousness is pain? How does she convince the...
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With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips away the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse's life from it's early optimistic beginnings to 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 10 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 surgery? And how can she leave all of this behind at the end of her shift?