The Nurse's Story
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"Passionate and emotionally riveting, this story is one you won’t want to end."
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?
"Speaking Up For Nursing What does the public know - and want to know - about the nursing profession? Nurse-novelist Carol Gino unravels misconceptions and tells 'the nurse's story.'" - American Journal of Nursing
"The first book to really take you behind hospital doors." - NY Times
"Speaks with honesty, vigor, eloquence and sensitivity." - Dolores Krieger, Ph.D, R.N.
"So steeped in reality is The Nurse's Story that to call it fiction seems scarcely adequate; the story bristles with details and case histories that only experience could have provided. Teri Daley, the narrator, is grossly underpaid and overworked, burdened with responsibility but little authority, yet often held accountable for the blundering of doctors. In harrowing, sometimes gruesome passages still fresh with pain, Teri ministers to patients so disfigured with cancer or burns that they barely resemble human beings, while other patients are so psychotic, tragically terminal or deformed that only sheer guts and bottomless compassion can see her through the long days and nights. Rocked by her own implosions of grief each time a patient dies, she finds the mundane quality of her own life mocking and barely tolerable." - Cheryl McCall for People Magazine
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About the author
Bestselling author, Carol Gino, RN, MA, was one of the first to reveal the secrets about what happens behind the closed doors of hospitals, from her first-hand perspective as a nurse for over 30 years. In her blockbuster expose about the healthcare industry (written as a novel), The Nurses Story unleashed a Pandora’s box and exposed the strengths, the vulnerabilities and the darkest indignities that Nurses and patients have lived with for centuries. As a nurse, author, and teacher for over 30 years. She has worked in all areas of Nursing, including; ER, Intensive Care, Burn Unit, Surgery, Pediatrics, Mental Health, and Hospice Care. Her Masters in Transpersonal Studies focused on new modalities for healing, consciousness, and cross-cultural healing.
Carol is the author or co-author of several Los Angeles Times, and New York Times bestselling books. As the longtime companion of the author, Mario Puzo (The Godfather) for over 20 years, until his death in 1999, two decades of brainstorming with Mario - editing and transcribing his handwritten manuscripts until his writer’s voice rang in her head - had prepared her for the ultimate honor which she reluctantly agree to at his request, and in 2001 she completed his book, The Family from his notes. It was published by Judith Regan of Harper Collins, and was also a New York Times best seller.
Her latest book, a memoir titled, Me & Mario: Love, Power & Writing with Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, offers an intimate look into the man and the myth and the magic between them. Often funny—sometimes raw—always true. It’s a journey of love, friendship, and playful competition that pushed them both in life and writing. It was a creative partnership that spanned two decades. Filled with Puzo’s tips on storytelling, fellow authors and writers-to-be will love this inside look into the mind and art of a legendary author and the woman he chose to challenge and love for over twenty years.
