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I WASN'T STRONG LIKE THIS WHEN I STARTED OUT True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Tavia Gilbert

Biography & Memoir • 8.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2013

Tavia Gilbert’s narration of these essays written by nurses is beautiful and profound. Nurses are the often invisible backbone of the healthcare system. Gilbert delivers all the essays, irrespective of gender or ethnicity, capturing the spirit of each one. They reflect personal growth as well as social and scientific progress. The hysteria of AIDS once meant that nurses weren’t even allowed to enter the rooms of AIDS patients, and now an HIV-positive individual might die of old age. Gilbert translates all the emotions, including fear, gallows humor, gratitude, and empathy. A baby born with half a heart dies shortly after birth, but the nurse treats both the baby and the parents with compassion and dignity. A home care nurse is the only attendee at the funeral of a client without family—and Gilbert does a terrific grumpy old man, too. A.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2016 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2016]

Trade Ed. • Tantor Media • 2015

CD ISBN 9781494513030 $39.99 • Seven CDs

MP3-CD ISBN 9781494563035 $29.99 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN $27.99

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