" The Nurse ' s Story " by Carol Gino

Please enjoy this republication of a previously published review ofThe Nurse ' s Story by my beloved colleague,Carol Gino. InThe Nurse ’s Story, the protagonist receives telephone calls at home from some patients to whom she has given her personal telephone number, a regrettable choice that I also occasionally made in those early years. Blurred boundaries can lead to blurred feelings and confusion between one ’s professional and personal lives, and Gino very deftly illustrates Teri’s ongoing struggles with her boundaries as she navigates a particularly challenging professional and personal journey.In 1982, Carol Gino publishedTheNurse ' s Story to great critical acclaim. Praised byKirkus Review,The LA Times, author Mario Puzo,The Denver Post, and a variety of critics, readers, and publications,The Nurse ' s Story remains one of the seminal stories of nursing and nurse burnout. In this fictionalized account of the beginnings of her own nursing career, Gino tells the story of Teri Daley, a nurse in the New York area who enters the profession with great enthusiasm and fervor, using self-righteous determination to fight against the disparities and inequities that she so clearly sees permeating the American healthcare system of that era.As much asThe Nurse ’s Story tells the story of one nurse ’s experience, it is a cautionary tale for all nurses, allowing the reader a glimpse into how a nurse can move from passion to burnout in the course of a f...
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