I Do Not Want to Quit Nursing. I Just Want to Stop Feeling So Bad: E#18
Show Notes: E#18
It is 7:50 in the morning. You are sitting in your car on level three of the parking garage after twelve hours in the ICU, maybe a little longer. The engine is running. A patient on two pressors fought you all night. Lunch was a granola bar at four in the morning. Your phone buzzes with the group text asking for one more nurse on Saturday. Across town, your sister is getting your kids on the bus again.
You put your hand on the gear shift, then you do not move it.
This episode stays in that car with you. It names the sentence so many nurses hold in their chest: I do not want…
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