An interesting behind the scene looks at the life of a nurse. Eye opening for people not in healthcare and relatable to people that are.

Some of the situations are horrifying, but true to what is happening in healthcare all over the world.

Kudos to the author for shining a light on a story that needed to be told.

E. R. Nurses is a compilation of experiences of nurses from all over our country. The stories are told in the words of the nurses who experienced the situations and are real and often chilling, funny, compelling, sad, and uplifting. There are literally dozens of stories, none very long but many are tales of death, and life at its most razor-edge times. The nurses who tell the stories do so with a kind of casualness that one might expect of those who experience the extreme conditions of the body and mind in times of emergency, pain, and sometimes joy. It is a book that will put you right there with the nurses thru their inexperience while in training to their calmness and serenity of experience in the worst of circumstances. It is emotional, uplifting, and often sad. You will not forget some of the stories and this book's truths about life and death will stay with you long after you read it. Thanks to #NetGalley#E.R.Nurses for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I don't know about you but for me reading books on life in the ER and more about nurses has always interested me. While I never could have been a nurse like my sister, I knew reading their stories really brought their stories more to life. I had the opportunity to read this book a few months ago and then to read it again was just perfect. Hearing about how all the different E.R. Nurses made it through the pandemic was like learning about how it really was beyond the news. I knew that being a nurse during the pandemic was hard with hearing the stories from my sister, but reading these made me realize that it was much worse than I ever imagined. If you like reading about real life heros and unsung heros, this is the book for you. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like a glance into nurses lives.

E.R. Nurses by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann is a fantastic non-fiction book that tells the stories of several frontline nurses from across the United States. Each section is a short vignette, anywhere from 2-10+ pages that tells one or more personal stories of nurses and their patients. While most of the stories are in fact about E.R. nurses, a career nurse rarely works in one location his or her whole life. The stories feature nurses who work in oncology, pediatrics, hospice, in flight/EMS situations, on covid wards, even overseas. The nurses featured include brand new, young nurses to veteran retired nurses, females, males, people of many diverse backgrounds, but they all have something in common. They care about what they do and want to help people.

I found this book really nicely paced and loved that each section was a new little story. Some of the people were so fascinating that I would have read a whole book on them, but it was nice to have the variety. I also liked that there were so many places to pause and leave the book for a while. That being said, it was still really hard to put down. Each piece was interesting in it's own way and left you excited for the next one to begin. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who loves a good medical non-fiction book or memoir. It may not be Grey's Anatomy level steaminess but there are definitely some very high intensity moments! Thanks so much to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this fabulous book!

I have really loved this book and reading about nurses and what they face. My daughter is a nurse and I totally appreciate and admire nurses. especially during the current pandemic. I think many patrons have checked this book out and have commented how interesting the book is.

Some choose nursing/health care because of family, some despite family.
CoVid hit nurses hard- too hard. Their experiences had me tearing up. We should be honoring nurses instead some treat them poorly.

On Tara, thank you for saying in ER "if you are waiting, that's a good thing. It's when we all rush in and jump on you that you should worry."
As I have been in both situations multiple times, both as patient and with family member.

My mother is a nurse, we were raised watching, hearing, and feeling how important nurses are.
I honor nurses and nursing. As a young child I watched tv shows - Emergency, MASH (sneaking), then on to ER and now Virgin River. We need more shows that respect nursing.

This book is a good basis for a documentary!

I enjoyed some of the stories but thought more of the nurses would be current day and that the stories would reflect life during the pandemic where they were the front-line heroes. Many of these nurses were retired or out of the field and it didn't seem that they all had primary experience in the ER. Nevertheless, the stories were interesting to read.

I never knew very much about nursing (even if my daughter is a nurse), but this book caused my respect for those in the profession to increase about 100 times.