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    INTENSIVE CARE

    By Echo Heron

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    Chilling, revelatory, and compassionate, Echo Heron’s bestselling memoir offers a brutally honest account of her time as an idealistic nursing student, her entry into the workforce, and her rude awakening to the gritty realities of practice. Devoted to helping the most trying patients in some of the harshest medical environments—from emergency rooms to intensive care units—Heron boldly confronts the most serious medical dilemmas of our time. When does a patient have the right to end his or her life, how can a medical professional help someone evaluate such a decision, and what can a nurse do when doctors don’t have their patients’ best interests at heart? These are just a few of the critical though deeply uncomfortable questions with which Heron must grapple.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribner
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781451665567
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    INTENSIVE CARE
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    Echo Heron

    Echo Heron is the award-winning, bestselling author of Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse. Some of her other works include Emergency 24/7, Condition Critical, and Mercy. 

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    • 3/5
      I am interested in medical stories, so I found this to be quite interesting. The author shares the trajectory of her career in nursing, from nursing school to being a dually placed Cardiac Care Nurse and ER Nurse. The patient stories were very interesting and gave much insight into the author's emotional response to various situations. Not bad.
    • 5/5
      Great insight into the world of nursing in the 70's and 80's. A must read for all perspective nurses. I really enjoyed the personal, sincere tone of the book.
    • 5/5
      The book that inspired me to become a nurse. I read it over 20 years ago and can still remember the most poignant stories. A must read for any nurse.

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    • 1/5
      This book is self-congratulatory swill. It's poorly written, and serves as a means of public self-stroking of the author's ego. Heron is rabidly determined to appear as "cute and plucky", always willing to stand up for herself against the overbearing doctors. This book consumed a day of my life that I will never get back, for which I am still resentful 6 years later.