A True Life Hero

Due to having four children, the nurse took a break from work and then continued to go back to school for nursing. She later received her bachelors in nursing degree and went back to working at Holy Redeemer Hospital. Growing up, the nurse had to take care of her grandparents and she discovered another side to her, the optimistic nursing side. She has thought about becoming a doctor at certain points in her life; however, as she went to hospitals and saw how nurses really care for the patients, nursing was her number one choice. Overall, the interviewee became a nurse because she was compassionate about making a difference in people’s lives and seeing them live healthier and

She was to have surgery sometime that day, and if everything went well, she would be sent to a nursing/rehab center until her bones strengthened. The weekend was tense and frightening; surgery always is and especially in a woman of her age. A week later, Friday morning, Grandma was released and sent to the Rehab Center. She acclimated well to her surroundings, and a couple of days later was even willing to go to therapy. That was what everyone else was doing.

Seeing her in the hospital like that was not good. My family and I were too happy when they released her. That wasn’t the last of our problems. When she checked out of the hospital, her doctor told her she needed to be in rehab for three months so that she can be able to walk again. While she was there she had a roommate who my grandmother did not like.

No one wanted to face the fact the she had to go through this. As my sister and I told my grandma, “good luck” and reassured her everything would be okay, we all new how dangerous this surgery was. My grandmother was operated on in Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the doctor said she would be fine, but as time went on we found out that she wasn’t going to be fine. The day of the surgery, I came home from school to hear that something had happened during surgery. The doctor told my family that my grandmother had become septic which forced a second surgery and a move to the intensive care unit (ICU) for three weeks, where she had to be put on life support.

In this book, Rebecca wants to tell the truth about the story of Henrietta Lacks during her medical process and the rights for Henrietta’s family after she died. The story started when Henrietta felt knots in her body. People around her said that maybe the knots were because she was pregnant. However, Henrietta never felt these knots before she was pregnant. After a week, she felt something was wrong with her body and she turned up pregnant with her fifth child.

I didn 't want an epidural but I did get some pain medicines in my I.V. that helped ease the pain from the contractions. The nurses were waiting for my water to break, but it never did naturally, so the doctor had to break it herself. I was in active labor for about eleven hours by the time I got to hold my beautiful daughter. In the room with me was my mother-in-law, my husband and my husbands grandma.

Marilyn’s mother was working long hours at the film lab just to make ends meet. She became very tired and nervous; life became difficult for her. She had been sent to the Norwalk State hospital for Mental Diseases for a rest when Marilyn was only five years old. That was what caused her to have a nervous breakdown and that is what caused Marilyn to spend her childhood in and out of foster homes. When Gladys first went to the hospital, Marilyn moved in with her mother’s best friend.

Part of our job as a nurse is to protect patient confidentiality. I had a friend who was very sick and was hospitalized on my mom’s floor for several days and when I saw that friend out one day, she asked me why I hadn’t come to visit her in the hospital, she said my mom had taken care of her. When I told her that I didn’t know that she had been hospitalized, she was very surprised and said that she just assumed my mom would tell me that she was there. My mom showed integrity in upholding patient confidentiality when my childhood best friend was very sick, she didn’t even tell me that she was there when I specifically

Injustice I have witnessed My Mom went to Community college and received an associate’s degree in nursing. After that she got a job at Lutheran General Hospital, in Park Ridge Illinois, as a member of the intensive care unit. After working there for a few years she was then moved to Northwest Community Hospital to work in the cardiac unit. She worked night shifts at the hospital for the extra money but eventually she started to have kids. After having her first child she still had enough time and energy but a year later she had a second child and had to start working the day shifts.

As a supervisor in my facility it is not uncommon to be asked to float a staff member to another area within the hospital due to staffing shortages. Two weeks ago, I was approached by my director to do just that. However, in this circumstance, I felt the request was inappropriate. The radiology registered nurse had more tasks to accomplish than normal and had requested that one of my nurses, a former radiology nurse, insert PICC lines for the afternoon. My nurse had been in the cardiology department for three years and had not placed a PICC line since leaving the radiology department.