The Person in the Bed

Nursing

Do you have the courage and strength it takes?

Are you meant to do it?

What would you want from a caregiver if you were a patient in a hospital?

Words and ways to reach desperately ill or hurting people that bring healing.

Things you can do to minimize the terror, fear, and hopelessness that the hospital patient or their family feels.

Ways to change someone's life for the better in an instant.

When you are the one ministered to by the patient or their family.

How to find strength and courage to do the unimaginable.

Auteur

Of the forty-two-year career of the RN, the author worked for forty-one years in the Intensive Care Unit, with twenty-eight years in the Cardiac ICU and fourteen years in the Neuro ICU in Northern California's first designated Comprehensive Stroke center. Having a BSN and CCRN for twenty-two years, she was a Coronary care unit supervisor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support instructor, Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump and EKG educator, and student mentor. She poured into hurting peoples' lives to find joy and fulfillment.An Air Force brat, she lived in many states and England, adapting to multiple schools and friends.