Midnight Meditations for Nurses

When a nurse works the night shift in a hospital, it is filled with experiences that can be joyful, sad, frustrating, and mysterious. Follow the journey of one nurse from her student days as a "pinkie" to her time working on a labor and delivery unit, the couple who loses their first child, the newborn who is too little to survive but fights to the end. Live the moment when an ambulance brings teenagers into the emergency department or the moment a patient passes from this world to the next. Diane takes you on a meditative review of experiences and memories she will never forget. Each meditation is a reflection of emotional ups and downs, realizations of what we can control as nurses and what we leave in the Lord's hands. One meditation at a time, Diane Bouffard (Registered Nurse) reveals her feelings, thoughts, and prayers at individual moments in a nursing world filled with challenges, fears, frustrations, unexpected joy, and unrelenting sadness. These are night shift experiences many nurses have lived, loved, and shared with peers across the world.