Nurses Tell Their Compelling Stories About the Ups and Downs of Nursing in New Book by Karen Buley, Published by Dog Ear Publishing

Missoula, MT, April 24, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The editor, a nurse for 31 years, has collected stories from 25 nurses who share frustrations and hope, victories and regret, what brought them to nursing and what makes them stay. One nurse writes of helping a grateful patient through blood transfusions, while another tells of a birth happening so quickly there was no time to get the doctor. Others share insights into why people choose this profession. A home care and hospice nurse writes, “Suddenly I was possessed with the urge to literally turn my head to the sky and say, ‘If you let me keep my daughter I promise I’ll give you something back.’ My desire to become a nurse had finally decided to announce itself.”

Buley was inspired to compile the stories for Nurses on the Run, published by Dog Ear Publishing, during a 2005 childbirth conference where the keynote speaker asked, “Who will answer the call lights?” The discussion that followed about the nursing shortage planted the seed for this powerful work, which ends with a call to combat the current nursing shortage. To further this cause, 10 percent of the book’s proceeds will be donated to nurse educator scholarships.

Karen Buley works in Obstetrics in Missoula, Montana, and has been published in A Cup of Comfort for Nurses, Directions in Nursing, American Nurse Today, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, Family Circle, Holiday Voices, and Montana Voices.

For more information, visit nursesontherunbook.com.

Nurses on the Run: Why They Come, Why They Stay
Karen Buley
Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-160844-336-9 156 pages $14.95 US
http://www.nursesontherunbook.com/

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

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