beachbabe
For some reason I've never really been able to pick up a book and just read. I'd lost interest or think of something else to do that seemed more exciting. Then one day last week, a friend of mine asked me what I enjoy reading the most. I told her my nursing textbooks! I enjoy when I have to study them. They're interesting and I learn something from them that I can apply and often can (at least try) to answer friends' questions about health and illnesses and also things that I can apply to my patients in clinical. That's when it hit me! Maybe what I need to read is a REGULAR book about nursing (so I am less nerdy). It's like getting indirect advice.
So I googled "books for nurses" and came across quite a few great titles. I just finished reading A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and in-Between in an Intensive Care Unit by Tilda Shalof. It's written by an ICU nurse (I want to work in the ICU!) and she wrote down many of her experiences from a student to where she is today. I loved it, couldn't put it down. And I was so encouraged to read that how she felt during nursing school is exactly how I feel now! The night before a clinical day, you wake up every hour on the hour. Terrified of sleeping past your alarm - which is very likely because you were up until 12:30 doing patient research. You eventually force yourself to get up 5 minutes before the alarm is to go off, probably right around 5:30am. Still terrified of the day to come. So much to learn and to prove. But yet you know there's a patient who needs you that day and your sense of compassion and dedication overrides the terror.
This book is great for nursing students, nurses, and those who would like to see what a day in scrubs is like.
What is it you like to read? Novels, biographies? Please share!
For some reason I've never really been able to pick up a book and just read. I'd lost interest or think of something else to do that seemed more exciting. Then one day last week, a friend of mine asked me what I enjoy reading the most. I told her my nursing textbooks! I enjoy when I have to study them. They're interesting and I learn something from them that I can apply and often can (at least try) to answer friends' questions about health and illnesses and also things that I can apply to my patients in clinical. That's when it hit me! Maybe what I need to read is a REGULAR book about nursing (so I am less nerdy). It's like getting indirect advice.
So I googled "books for nurses" and came across quite a few great titles. I just finished reading A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and in-Between in an Intensive Care Unit by Tilda Shalof. It's written by an ICU nurse (I want to work in the ICU!) and she wrote down many of her experiences from a student to where she is today. I loved it, couldn't put it down. And I was so encouraged to read that how she felt during nursing school is exactly how I feel now! The night before a clinical day, you wake up every hour on the hour. Terrified of sleeping past your alarm - which is very likely because you were up until 12:30 doing patient research. You eventually force yourself to get up 5 minutes before the alarm is to go off, probably right around 5:30am. Still terrified of the day to come. So much to learn and to prove. But yet you know there's a patient who needs you that day and your sense of compassion and dedication overrides the terror.
This book is great for nursing students, nurses, and those who would like to see what a day in scrubs is like.
What is it you like to read? Novels, biographies? Please share!
Apr 19, 2011 @ 12:38 pm
