I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse by Lee Gutkind

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse by Lee Gutkind

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out, a collection of true narratives, reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first sticks, first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts and keeps them in the profession. The stories reveal many voices from nurses at different stages of their careers: One nurse-in-training longs to be trusted with more important procedures, while another questions her ability to care for nursing home residents. An efficient young emergency room nurse finds his life and career irrevocably changed by a car accident. A nurse practitioner wonders whether she has violated professional boundaries in her care for a homeless man with AIDS, and a home care case manager is the sole attendee at a funeral for one of her patients. What connects these stories is the passion and strength of the writers, who struggle against burnout and bureaucracy to serve their patients with skill, empathy, and strength.

Lee Gutkind is the founder and editor of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction and the author or editor of more than 30 books. He has written or edited numerous books about writing, including The Art of Creative Nonfiction, Keep It Real, and You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between. He is also the editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies, including At the End of Life; Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly; and True Stories, Well Told . . . from the First Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine. Gutkind currently teaches creative writing at Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.

Alice Bradley is a writer and editor who co-authored the book Let's Panic About Babies! (St. Martin's Press, 2011). She has been published in numerous magazines, including Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, and Redbook. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Fence, [PANK], and The Sun. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, in fiction and nonfiction. Her essays have also appeared in anthologies such as Sleep is for the Weak and Things I Learned About My Dad (in Therapy). Her popular blog Finslippy has maintained a steady following since its creation in 2004. She has a Twitter following of over 60,000.

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ISBN 13	9781937163129
ISBN 10	1937163121
Title	I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
Author	Lee Gutkind
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Underland Press
Year published	2013-04-25
Number of pages	320
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