Helping, Healing, Caring: Memoir of a Nurse

By Suzanne E Davidovac

Suzanne's memoir is a nurse's perspective of her work. It is a collection of stories that are funny, heart breaking, people stories and dog stories. Relying on her sense of humor, she negotiates through harrowing experiences, learning how the patient's relationship with family, friends, and medical personnel impact their improving health.Working in the intensive care unit of a US hospital, she shares stories of her dogs to help a young girl regain her will to live; provides blankets to a family torn apart by the father's heart transplant; sees how a thoughtless act of violence shatters a couple enjoying a visit to a neighborhood bar,...Steering from intensive care into public health nursing, Suzanne is thrown into a world where she provides health guidance to patients with unique needs - a mentally challenged couple bringing up their newborn; addicts fighting to stay off drugs; an Indian Chief caring for an ancient lady; schizophrenics living on their own; a little girl needing heart surgery raised in the home of Hell's Angels...As Suzanne goes through her nursing experiences, she understands how gestures of love and a sense of community help people. She learns about herself and how to give meaning to life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482346559
• ISBN13: 9781482346558
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"