All I Ever Wanted to Be Was a Nurse - Paperback
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Want to be a nurse? Find out what you're in for. Already a nurse? You can identify.
All I Ever Wanted to Be Was a Nurse shares the sad, funny, terrifying, and compassionate feelings in the daily routine of a nurse's life. Looking back, I can see more clearly how God guided this nurse in her work. Each chapter is its own individual story taken from my experience in different fields of nursing.
Here are a few samples, just a few, to whet your appetite:
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The impact of the car on the motorcycle sent Justin flying up into the air as the gas tank burst into flames, his body landing hard on the burning, racing bike. "No!" Justin screamed.
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"I've decided not to deliver-AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!
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I rushed into the street in pursuit of the beautiful, young-looking Alzheimer's patient; now we had stopped the traffic both ways. As I tried to corral her, she started to beat me up with her large, leather purse. She rushed at the waiting traffic yelling. "Help, she's trying to kidnap me!"
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"Give it to me or I'll just hold my breath and die!" I couldn't give more meds to him; surely a grown man wouldn't do such a thing. But...
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"Director of Nurses, come here!" No one but the Director of Nurses was acceptable for this former neurosurgeon.
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All I Ever Wanted to Be Was a Nurse is still true-no regrets. I hope that those who are sitting on the fence about nursing will, after reading my story, choose to be that one more nurse who will carry on!
Sheilla Darlene Shrock has her RN degree in nursing from the Externals Degree Program from the University of New York. She has been a practicing nurse since 1972. She started her career as an aide, progressing to an LPN and finally reaching her goal of being an RN. Sheilla has been married to one husband for over fifty years. They have three children and four grandchildren.
She enjoys gardening, quilting, and oil painting. Church work and Kindergarten Sabbath School fill any spare time. Her extra time is taken up by telling weekly character-building stories for children of all ages on her YouTube channel, Grandma Sheilla's Stories. It airs at 8 am on Fridays so the children will have a new story for every weekend.
Nursing in all its forms has filled her life with its variety, from hospital nursing, skilled nursing facilities, medication and treatment nurse, public speaking, monthly nursing in-services, nursing transport, director of nursing, nursing care managers, hospital nursing supervisor.
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