The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital

Alexandra Robbins

Apr 2015 · Sold by Workman Publishing Company

About this ebook

A New York Times bestseller. “A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes.”—People

Nurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing—one of the world’s most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world’s most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD.

In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It’s a world of hazing—“nurses eat their young.” Sex—not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse—disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying—by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the “shadowy, dark corners of our profession.”

The result is a page-turning, shocking look at our health-care system.



 

Ratings and reviews

This book follows 3 nurses at different hospitals and their personal lives. In-between, it offers statistics and research information on nursing careers. I felt it was too biased on the negative side towards gossip, backstabbing, cliques, disrespect from doctors towards nurses and hospital policies. Just wasn't my kind of book. I wanted to read a book more on the patient cases as experience from the nurses point of view. There was very little of this. Plus it was a very short book bc it had a lot of Filler pages at the end.

I'm only a couple chapters in, but so far it is a truly amazing book on the lives and nurses and what we do every day for our whole lives. Empowering. Beautiful. Nursing.

I am a retired nurse, This author knows Nursing; the bad the good the sad the hilarious and the beautiful. Very interesting and well written,

About the author

Alexandra Robbins, winner of the prestigious 2014 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Pledged and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. She has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and other publications, and has appeared on numerous television shows from 60 Minutes to The Colbert Report.