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For author Janice Tray, nursing has been her passion since age six. Although the job is very demanding mentally, emotionally, and especially physically, she loved it. In True Stories of an Intensive Care Nurse, she shares some of the stories gathered from her twenty-six years of nursing experience, twenty-three of those in the intensive care unit. Now retired, she tells the story of Johnny, a patient dying from Valley Fever, and how he learned the power of forgiveness firsthand. Theres the case of Mr. Z., a man in his seventies, who was taught how to use guided imagery to help him deal with his symptoms. True Stories of an Intensive Care Nurse narrates true accounts of Trays experiences in and outside the intensive care unitwhere the difference between life and death often rests on quick decisions by nurses and doctorsand events cannot always be explained by science. Tray provides a testament to the wonderful things God can do in your life when you trust him and ask him for help. Praise for True Stories of an Intensive Care NurseAs a nurse faces daily challenges to keep her patients alive and recovering, she depends upon interfaces with the almighty for help.Maria Berbeo, Book Editor, PublisherThe subject matter is of interest, and the author feels deeply about the spiritual nature of every encounter.George Robinson, Community Leader

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	08 juillet 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462410132
Langue	English

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TRUE STORIES OF AN INTENSIVE CARE NURSE
Janice Tray

Copyright © 2014 Janice Tray.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-1014-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-1013-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014912026

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 07/08/2014

CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Johnny
Chapter 2. Mr. Z And Guided Imagery
Chapter 3. Golden Flames
Chapter 4. Darkness In The Midst Of Light
Chapter 5. Back In The U.s.a. From Brazil
Chapter 6. The Respiratory Therapist
Chapter 7. Mr. Strong
Chapter 8. Mind Over Body
Chapter 9. Mr. Johnson In Bed One
Chapter 10. Direction
Chapter 11. Mr. Smith
Chapter 12. Life After Death
Conclusion

INTRODUCTION
Nursing has been my passion since age six. A doctor took my tonsils out in his office, using an ether mask for anesthesia. When I woke up, I was alone, sitting in a big, overstuffed chair, coughing up blood onto a towel on my lap. I was in a lot of pain. A young woman walked up to me, squatted down to my eye level, and said, “You are going to be all right.” She said it so convincingly, that I believed her, and stopped crying. I saw compassion in her eyes. “Besides that, you will have to eat a lot of ice cream,” she said. My mother came and I asked her who the lady was. “She’s a nurse,” was the answer. That is when I decided to be a nurse.
Recently I looked at the end of my career when a doctor told me that I was not allowed to lift, push, or pull more than five pounds because of a back injury. I was very sad for weeks, because that meant I would have to give up my job as an intensive care nurse, a career that I loved for over 23 years.