Order now $14.95

The Nurse’s Story by Carol Gino National Best Seller! Over 1 Million Sold! The Nurse’s Story is one woman’s testament of passionate committment, a moving and important affirmation of courage, of the power of love, and tragedy redeemed by compassion. Click here to read chapter 1 “Few nurses have experienced the range of cases this dedicated woman describes; cancer, the burn unit, emergency ward, birth, brain damage. And she has taken extraordinary measures to help people - given medication against doctors orders, withheld medication when she felt a person was supposed to die, eased the sexual tension of a burn victim who’d lost his arms. The writer is a vigorous, optimistic caring woman. And she exudes frankness.” - Los Angeles Times

With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips 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 ten-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 major surgery at a given time? And how can she leave all this behind at the end of her shift?

More Reviews

“She knows the front lines of nursing through and through… her stories… are almost invariably unsettling. But she is always honest. In public and in private hospitals alike, people die daily in ways we don’t want to imagine; and when the rewards no longer compensate for the pain and frustration, tough, caring people like Gino are lost to the profession. A graphic, hard-line testimonial.” -Kirkus Review

“The Nurse’s Story does make one a believer in second chances.” -Denver Post

“The Nurse’s Story . . . speaks with honesty, vigor, eloquence and sensitivity to the essentially human daily experience of Every nurse, tales that are so intertwined in the mysteries of life and death that they are rarely admitted and heretofore never publicly told even as myth” - Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., Professor of Nursing, New York University

“Gritty and honest . . it has a fierce compassion.” - Martha Lear, Author of HEARTSOUNDS

“Riveting, wrenching. Few nurse’s have experienced the range of cases this dedicated woman describes: cancer, burn unit, emergency ward, birth, brain damage . . . The writer is a vigorous optimistic, caring woman. And she exudes frankness . . .” - Los Angeles Times