Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826118372 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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There were no monitorswe tried to take care of people in the most humane way possible.--Lois, Lindy Boggs Medical Center Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina takes you inside six New Orleans hospitals-cut off from help for days by flooding-where nurses cared for patients around the clock. 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. Just a few of the heroic nurses you'll find inside: Rae Ann and twenty others, including her husband and children, who wait on a hospital roof for help to come Lisa, in the midst of caring for patients, who has not heard from her husband in 5 days Roslyn, who has 800 people in her hospital when the power generators shut down Linda, who uses bed sheets to write out help messages on a hospital roof, hoping someone will see them The book also discusses how to plan and prepare for future disasters, with a closing chapter documenting the "lessons learned" from Katrina, including day-to-day health care delivery in a city of crisis. You are going to read this and it's going to sound like we created this scenario, but this is a real scenario that happened.--Pam, Memorial Medic
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
Denise Danna, DNS, RN, is Associate Dean for Professional Services, Community Activities and Advanced Nursing Practice Education, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, New Orleans. Danna worked at Memorial Medical Center, New Orleans, holding several leadership posit
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 everyone who is faced with making difficult decisions and must tap into inner strength and resilience.. "Great read" according to 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.. Kay Higdon said I recommend this book for Community Health Nursing courses.. 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 will add it to my recommended readings for the the community nursing course.