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Laughter in Nursing. Retired nurse here. I received this book as a gift. I couldn’t put it down very easily. I enjoyed the tales, chapter after chapter. I laughed out loud. I am about to purchase this book as a gift to another nurse friend. You just cannot go wrong reading this and gifting another!

Anyone in Healthcare will relate to this book! Robin’s book is so engaging I didn’t want it to end. I had a constant smile on my face as I enjoyed her stories. Her experiences prompted hilarious flashbacks of my own career. And her views of the status of healthcare are spot-on. So proud of you, Rob!

Fun read. Former ER nurse. These stories are hilarious and so relatable. A fun read!

Pay attention to your nurse. A humorous and poignant skewering of our healthcare system from a nurse educator who conveys her love for her profession in spite of it all.

Great gifts for anyone in health care! Tales from the crazy thing that is health care! I really loved this book! If you are that person who is always asking an ER nurse for funny, crazy or stupid things people come into the Er for you will like this as well.

This most caring nurse and friend of mine wrote this book reviewing her 40 yrs as a nurse. You will laugh and cry and remember all the reasons you became a nurse and the rewards and frustrations it brings. It is a must read. Thanks to all the nurses out there that try to keep us alive and well when we are in the hospital. Thanks Robin! You are awesome!

Anyone can enjoy this book. As a fellow ER RN now retired, it was fun to relive some of this humor. For a lay person it gives a view into emergency medicine and what we go through. I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.

This book is a must read for anyone in healthcare! Expertly written by a career Registered Nurse of 40 years with floor nursing and ER experience. It offers both humor and insight as she brings you along for the ride on some of the day to day experiences, her trials and tribulations along with funny stories. She also offers solutions to some the biggest issues plaguing the heath industry today. I just hope someone reading will listen!! Get your copy today and buy one for your healthcare friend!

So relatable! I received the book yesterday and finished it today. I couldn’t put it down! It is funny, relatable and heartwarming. I’ve been a nurse for 24 years and 10 years of that was spent in the ED. I love how the author captures the ups and downs of nursing life.

Provides the reader with insight into the world of nursing. Funny, occasionally sad, honest stories about being a nurse. Loved this book!

This delightful book, a compilation of anecdotes and stories spanning the author’s 40-year career as a nurse, is a must read, especially for those who have worked in some capacity in the medical field. Having been employed as an ER technician and a unit secretary in a Level I trauma center and having spent numerous years as a volunteer EMT in my community, I found the book to be captivating—a real page-turner and difficult to put down. As I was reading, I felt the author’s heart and soul and heard her voice as she told her stories, which ran the gamut from patient encounters, to relationships with medical staff and hospital personnel, to depictions of the grueling, stressful environment in which nurses work each and every day. At the beginning of book, the author speaks of her “mantras” and defines specific terms, “Robinisms,” that she had coined during her years working as a nurse. The mantras are thematic and provide the framework of the book, and the author’s coined phrases appear throughout the read. Out of her respect for her patients’ privacy and her desire to protect the anonymity of her co-workers, the author creates clever, often hilarious names for the characters in her stories. Periodically, she interjects personal anecdotes regarding her family, pets, upbringing, her “call” to nursing, and the need to keep Florence Nightingale relevant in today’s nursing environment. Her stories contain commentary on the decline of professionalism and the unfortunate state of affairs in today’s healthcare industry. And she poignantly embraces the concepts of following one’s own path and living one’s truth. The author’s writing is spot-on, as I found myself involuntarily nodding my head in agreement as I kept reading story after story. I laughed out loud and shed a few tears. In short, this book, written from the author’s heart, is unique in its presentation, is funny, is sad, and is thoroughly entertaining. I did not want the book to end.

Wow. Great storytelling, as we are taken on a journey of nursing and life in the hospital. When working with you Robin, I always wished I had more time to hear your stories, and now that I’ve heard these, I want more. You are a very entertaining force of nature! These stories really describe the nearly complexities of medicine, the ups and downs of patient care, and the comedy and tragedy of working in the ED, so well. Kudos!