E.R. Nurses

True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes

De: James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, Chris Mooney

Narrado por: 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

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“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

I love it

I have enjoy reading this book and losing on here and can’t read more of it

Best Non-Fiction

I love true stories about medical professionals. This is by far the best book of such books.

An Eye Opener

This book was exceptionally well written. I have always given nurses a lot of credit for everything they have done and are doing for all of their patients. After reading this book, it has opened my eyes much further to just how dedicated these men and women are to saving lives and trying their best to give people a second chance at life when possibly facing death. I found myself getting super excited when I would hear about those lives saved and I cried with those who had to watch their patients passing away. There were both joyful and sad moments in this book. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. This gives us a massive look into the lives that nurses, doctors, paramedics, flight nurses, army medics, etc, go through every day and go into work with the hopes of making a difference in someone’s life. I gave this book a 5 out of 5 rating because of how well it was written and that nurses were willing to open up to the public and share their experiences whether they were good or bad. It goes to show that being a nurse takes a lot of guts and a strong will power to keep going despite the tragities they face on a regular basis. More then anything, it shows us that they do everything within their power to hold onto all of the happy moments that they have witnessed which helps to suppress the more difficult times that they have faced and will continue to face as they go on through their nursing careers. It was totally awesome to hear of a nurse who was actually from my city where I currently live. I will always continue to pray for those nurses and medics who are out there on the front lines battling to save lives every day and who thrive on their abilities to make a difference in someone’s life. For those who may get a bit queasy at the descriptions of blood and guts, I would read this at your own pace where you can tolerate those kinds of descriptions of accidents etc. there absolutely nothing that I disliked about this book. I loved every second of this book and hope that many more will go on to read this book and have the same feelings that I do. Happy reading. Its definitely a moving experience.

A book everyone should definitely read!!

This was sooo very well done!!
I’ve learnt a lot!
A read I will definitely recommend!!

Memories of my days in ER

I think this was a good compilation of all kinds of things that can happen in ER. I worked in ER for about a year. I moved on to ICU. I much prefer having my patients come after they are cleaned up and sutured and having had surgery if need be. But ER gave me some of the best experiences and hardest experiences I had in my nursing career which was over 50 years. Some of it is hard to hear, but that’s ER.