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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started out Out, a assortment of true narratives, shows the dynamism and diversity of nurses who supply the first vital line of patient attention. Here, nurses keep in mind their first "sticks", first births, and first fatalities and think about what gets them though long, requiring shifts and retains them out there. The stories expose many voices from nurses at different levels of their occupations: One nurse-in-training longs to be trusted with more "important" types of procedures while another questions her ability to care for nursing home residents. A competent young emergency room nurse confirms his life and job irrevocably evolved by a vehicle accident. A nurse specialist wonders whether she's violated professional limitations in her care for a homeless man with Assists. And a home-care circumstance manager is the only real attendee at a funeral for one of her patients. What links these testimonies is the love and durability of the writers who struggle against burnout and bureaucracy to provide their patients with skill, empathy, and durability.