Helpful Score: 4
This is an amazing woman. I felt that this book really gave a bird's eye view of what it must be to work as a nurse in the ICU. If you are interested in the medical profession at all read this book!
Helpful Score: 2
Well-written, fast-paced, terrific book. Tons of great nurse stories, telling what it's really like working in the medical field and in a big hospital. It's a great book for anyone who has loved-ones who are nurses, or are thinking of becoming a nurse themselves. I've always said there are three professions that will never be paid enough even if they received a million a year: teachers, police, and nurses. Read this book and you'll understand why, and agree completely. Read all of Echo's books. They're all just as good!
Helpful Score: 1
This is a true story of a nurse, written by the nurse herself. If you're interested in medicine, you'll enjoy this book.
Helpful Score: 1
"I turned away, unwilling to dispel the intimacy of the moment. It was almost frightening when I thought of how close people allowed themselves to be with us; we were given such easy access to their souls. We were like housekeepers given the keys to every room and finding the skeletons and long-hidden cobwebs no one else ever saw."----INTENSIVE CARE is the moving and personal account of a nurse's life: from training to practice to burnout--and beyond.
Helpful Score: 1
Very good portrait of nursing.I am a nurse and thought it very honestand fair picture of how it is.
