Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826118372 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is an active member of the American Nurses Association, American Organization of Nurse Executives, National League for Nursing, and Sigma Theta Tau International, Epsilon Nu Chapter. For three decades she has worked in the fields of marketing and media relations for healthcare and educational organizations, holding management positions
One reader's response to the book:"It was fabulousI cried, was mad, and know a great way to make sure this never happens again is to get their story out."--Becky Graner, MS, RNNurse ConsultantNorth Dakota Nursing Association
Five years after the levees broke, the horror and chaos of Katrina is still fresh in these accounts. It's not only a tribute to the courage of the nurses, but should also serve as a guide for policy planners hoping to avoid less than optimal responses to future crises.--AJNThe bookfascinates simply for its raw documentation of the dreadful events and conditions endured by nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff as they struggled to care for critically ill patients without electricity, running water, air conditioning systems, and other resources. In this book, nurses from Hurricane Katrina share what they did, how they coped, what they lost, and what they are doing now in a city and health care infrastructure still rebuilding, still in jeopardy. Danna and Cordray provide an intimate portrait of the experience of Katrina, which they and their colleagues endured. In their own words, the nurses tell what happened in each hospital just before, during, and after the storm. Through the stories, readers are transported into the hospitals as nurses heroically work together to evacuate babies from NICUs and vented patients from ICU, try to calm patients, family members, and coworkers, and make do with the equipment and supplies they've got.--National NurseDon't ever think that this can't happen to you. 2010 PROSE Award Winner for Nursing & Allied Health Sciences!2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Publi
Fran-is-a-fan said True stories about living through Hurricane Katrina. Forget what you may have read in "reputable" news media or other books about what happened inside Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. This well documented book provides first-hand accounts from nurses who lived through the most trying time of their careers, working at Memorial Medical Center and other hospitals in the area during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina, enduring the worst failure of government assistance (federal, state and local) in their lifetimes. Lessons here for ever. Great read Lacey Allphin I recommend this product to anyone interested in the stories of nurses during Hurricane Katrina; I also recommend this to nurses looking for answers about this storm and how nurses can be prepared for future disasters. Great stories; very informative.. "I recommend this book for Community Health Nursing courses." according to Kay Higdon. When I was an Emergency Room nurse I was honored to meet a nurse that was practicing in New Orleans during Katrina. I knew her story had to be shared. I am grateful that the nurses stories were compiled and published.I am teaching an RN-BSN Community Nursing course for the first time. I found this book as part of my review of literature for a unit on Emergency Management. I could not put down the book. It directed me to ANA policy and other important references to share with my students. I wi