Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Introduction

vii

 

Refusing Doctors’ Orders   Karen Klein, RN

1

 

Please Help My Son Not Die   Nancy Leigh Harless, np

9

 

A Truth about Cats and Dogs   Adrienne Zurub, RN, ma, cnor

21

 

Every Patient Tells a Story   Cheryl Dellasega, PhD

27

 

Home Delivery   Cara Muhlhahn, CNM

33

 

Recognition   Emily J. McGee, RN

43

 

A Physician’s Definition of Failure   Mindy Owen, RN, CPRM, QCM

49

 

“Mistake, You Say?”   Bonnie Jarvis-Lowe, RN

55

 

The Best Doctor this Side of Heaven   Angela Posey-Arnold, RN, BSN

59

 

Where the Heart Rules   Keith Carlson, RN

67

 

Ms. Manners   Carolyn Lounsbury, LPN

75

 

Smart Enough Not to be a Doctor   Pamela F. Gonzalez, RN

79

 

Rants to Raves   Kathy Quan, RN BSN, PHN

85

 

The Nurse is the Doctor!   Anna Gregory, RGN, BSc

91

 

Grin and Bear It   Tilda Shalof, RN, BScN

95

 

Nurse Cherry Ames and Dr. Fortune Marry   Paula Sergi, RN, MFA

105

 

Laughing Too Hard to Care   Heidi Lipka, RN

111

 

Everyone Cries   Cortney Davis, MA, RNC, APRN

117

 

Relinquishing a Soul   Terry Ratner, RN, MFA

125

 

Acknowledgment of Permissions

133

 

Reader’s Guide

135

 

About the Editor

143

 

About the Contributors

145

 

Meditations on Hope Preview

153

 

Final Moments Preview

175