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Guest: Theresa Brown, nurse / author; quit college professor career to go back to school for nursing; Pitt’s Accelerated Nursing Program; how documenting first year of nursing became a book; “Bedside” blog; dealing w/ patients: doctors vs. nurses; hospitals overworking nurses; nurse to patient ratio; a typical nurse’s day; dealing w/ death of patients; patient / nurse boundaries; death panels; doctors don’t do poop; doctors & nurses aren’t trained to work w/ each other; hospital hierarchy; hospice isn’t all about death.
This article appears in Nov 21-27, 2012.
