E.R. Nurses

True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes

By: James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, Chris Mooney

Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Will Collyer, Betsy Foldes Meiman, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee, Tracey Leigh, Roxana Ortega, Sterling Sulieman, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Rick Zieff

They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. Experience the life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, in this important book putting a spotlight on America’s greatest unsung heroes.

Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families.

You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart.

This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand.

When we’re at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best.

“The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” —Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN

“James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read.” —Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom, The Perfect Storm, and In My Time of Dying

Critic reviews

“As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have witnessed the compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of our nurses in countless situations. They save our lives every day and represent the true life blood of any hospital. Their stories are given the respect they deserve and are captured beautifully in E.R. Nurses.”—Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN

"James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read. In their own bullet-straight words, these heroes describe the pain, the love, and the brutally hard work of trying to save people's lives. I could not stop reading it and when I was done I felt like I was changed forever." —Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom, Tribe, War, Fire, and The Perfect Storm

“E.R. Nurses captures the beating heart of nursing: the lives lost and saved, the hard tragedies and unbelievable miracles, and how every day nurses show up, give their all for patients, and then do it over and over and over again, all while holding onto their empathy and humanity. Readers will be stunned and moved by this no-holds-barred portrait of nurses' essential and deeply meaningful work.”—Theresa Brown, PhD, RN, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

“These readable bite-sized snippets represent a significant caregiver demographic of women and men who exhibit the labor-intensive focus, compassion, dedication, and passion necessary to be an emergency nurse. From the heartfelt to the tragic, this book displays the nursing profession in all its unsung glory. A timely tribute to the modern-day heroes of medicine, conveyed in their own words.”—Kirkus

“Thriller legend James Patterson has compiled hundreds of interviews for his poignant and timely nonfiction recounting of the dramatic, dangerous, and professional lives of America’s nurses.”—Parade

"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann have captured the essence and drama of what it takes to be a nurse. Sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes frightening, give this book to someone who is thinking of being a nurse or is one already."—The Florida-Times Union

50 years a NICU nurse. You nailed it

So easy to identify with the medical trauma and drama because it is told in he first person. The concern for patients and their families applies to many of the nurses and doctors with whom I have worked. These are believable accounts of unbelievable medical crises

Excellent Book

God Bless; each of the healthcare professionals that are continuing to work and give so much of themselves each day.
You are so compassionate about being a nurse.

I am a retired R.N., who graduated from a hospital school of Nursing and I am very blessed that I graduated from a hospital school of nursing, where our clinicals were with real live people and not mannequins. We started clinical hospital training within 2 months of our first year.

Perhaps the method of training Nurses needs to require more real hands on training.

My Favorite People

As a recently retired ED Physician, I’ve got to say thank you to the many ER Nurses with whom I’ve practiced for decades.
These personal stories represent the tip of the iceberg. Their heartfelt sacrificial gifts to their fellow human beings are only occasionally recognized. I have joined them in many of their most difficult trials, and so appreciate this tribute to the nurses to whom we all owe so much.
Their lives impact all of us in some way. We owe them our deepest gratitude for the love and expertise they give us.

Truth!

Having been a nurse for 50 years,this book is right on! To all my colleagues, keep on keeping on.! God Bless

Kindness; compassion

I enjoyed the small snippets of the stories from each nurse & how they had to lay their feelings aside