ABSTRACT

This book explores, with great insight, the multiple lessons of living and dying. These stories offer engaging and invaluable insights for trainees, practicing nurses, and other health professionals working in the field. Through these stories, the author has laid the ground for the caregiver to reach beyond the confines of the settings of illness whether home, hospital, or long-term care and become an active and involved participant in the world of the patient.

chapter |6 pages

Prologue

chapter |6 pages

A Drop of Blood

chapter |6 pages

Mr. Tims’ Morning

chapter |6 pages

It Says Love

chapter |2 pages

Morning Coffee

chapter |12 pages

The Museum Visit

chapter |8 pages

Spring Fever

chapter |10 pages

Phone Calls

chapter |10 pages

The Waiting Room

chapter |8 pages

The Vigil

chapter |10 pages

Doctor Patel Comes to Tea

chapter |8 pages

The Visitor

chapter |8 pages

The Dentist

chapter |24 pages

The Letter M

chapter |6 pages

Epilogue: A True Story

chapter |6 pages

Nursing Notes for The Bell Lap

chapter |2 pages

References

chapter |2 pages

About the Author

chapter |1 pages

About the Author