
I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out
True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
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Narrated by:
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Tavia Gilbert
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By:
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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.
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Critic reviews
"Beautifully written stories." (Booklist)
"Tavia Gilbert’s narration of these essays written by nurses is beautiful and profound.... Gilbert translates all the emotions, including fear, gallows humor, gratitude, and empathy." (AudioFile)
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A nurse must read!
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Inspiring book for nurses!
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Great stories. The narration is interesting.
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Spot on
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Exceptional compilation of nurses' stories!
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What made the experience of listening to I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out the most enjoyable?
being the husband of a nurse, this book helped me see the good work my wife is doing and be all the more proud of her.Have you listened to any of Tavia Gilbert’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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i gave my wife a paperback copy of the book for her birthday.excellent
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Loved this book!
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I appreciate the humanness of these stories however there is not much in the ways of clinical nursing. it's more about the human experience, which is great, but doesn't feel like the full picture.
The narrator keeps this perpetual tone of angst, worry, grief, intensity... it's a bit too much. I have to take breaks because it gets old.
Good stories, bad narrator
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Started great and I think I will be great listen but I would never know. This was little too much for me, I too faint hearted for this. Some of the stories are little hard to bear.Was not able to read it
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I am a retired RN and I can relate to many of these experiences.
RNs will enjoy this book
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