{"product_id":"the-nurses-story-paperback","title":"The Nurse's Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Gino\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e - A powerful true story originally published by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, serialized nationwide, and adapted into a screenplay by Mario Puzo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeri Daley is a new nurse with a genuine calling to help others, but nothing in nursing school prepared her for the challenges of nurse-patient relations, hospital bureaucracy, the mystery of healing, or the raw grief of unpredictable mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Gino's own years in critical care and intensive care units, this fictionalized nurse memoir takes you behind the scenes of big-city hospital wards where life-and-death decisions are made in seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can she help the family of a terminally ill patient when the doctor can do nothing more?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat can she do for a 10-year-old burn victim for whom most of consciousness is pain?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow does she convince the doctor of her intuition that the patient cannot survive major surgery at a given time?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd how can she leave all of this behind at the end of her twelve-hour shift?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever been moved by real-life nurse memoirs like \u003cem\u003eThe Shift\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story\u003c\/em\u003e, this novel will feel like finally hearing your own story told out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first book to really take you behind hospital doors.\" - \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So steeped in reality...that to call it fiction seems scarcely adequate.\" - \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most shattering and exhilarating book on nursing ever written.\" - Mario Puzo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Belongs on the shelf of every nursing school, every hospital, and every public library in the country.\" - \u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Riveting, wrenching...Few nurses have experienced the range of cases this dedicated woman describes. The writer is a vigorous, optimistic, caring woman-and she exudes frankness.\" - \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I walked back into her room and closed the door behind me. I turned off the alarm on the respirator, detached her and started blindly to do her dressings. I refused to look at the monitor. And then, for the first time, I held her small body tight against me. I hugged her, rocking. After I laid her down and fixed her bed, I straightened the entire room. Finally, I looked at the monitor. Straight line.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI opened the chart to see what the doctor had written. It read: 'Patient died while on respirator. Pronounced dead at 6:45 A.M.'\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was a nurse for more than thirty years-in emergency rooms, burn units, ICU, pediatrics, hospice, psyche wards, and home healthcare-and every scene in this book is drawn from the real patients and families I cared for. To protect their privacy, I changed names and details. But the babies I kept vigil over, the families I had to tell the truth to, and the moments when I knew in my bones what a chart could never say-and at times had to put my job on the line to give my patient a fighting chance-are exactly as I lived them. These stories grew out of the lives of patients and colleagues that have never left my heart. Their real names and faces, I will never forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 396\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51893366653216,"sku":"9781936530465","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c24fJ7ZHK9781936530465.webp?v=1781998460","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-nurses-story-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}