Nurse's Memoir Captures 'Fragility Of Life'
April 16, 2009
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"A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care" is a memoir by Jennifer Culkin, a critical care and emergency flight nurse in the Pacific Northwest turned award-winning writer. The book details stories from her work across a 30-year career, from neo-natal units where she worked with children with serious genetic defects, to five years working as a helicopter-flight nurse, attempting to keep patients alive until they landed at a hospital.
Lynda Mapes, reviewing the book for The Seattle Times, describes herself "looking forward to picking up this book each night to see where Culkin, in her memoir of her career as a critical-care nurse, including a five-year stint as a helicopter-flight nurse, would find herself next."
Another reviewer on beacon.org says that the book, Culkin's first, "does more than plunge readers into the chaos of emergency medicine; it is also a masterful reflection on the pivotal moments of our lives, on the beautiful fragility of our mortality."
Culkin's book shows the range of experience a nursing career can have over the course of a career, and the challenges and joys of working on the front lines of life and death.
If you're interested in nursing, a career that has brought Culkin years of experiences, from trauma rescue flights to caring for premature babies, this may be the cue you should look into pursuing a nursing degree.
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