Nurse Life and the Next Life: A Nurse’s True Stories of Life versus Death in the Emergency Room

Mr. Kelly was dead. My eyes fixed on my once breathing, talking, alert, and oriented patient, who was now pale, still, without emotion, lying on his hospital bed. I was four hours into my first shift as a nurse with my own patient, but this was not how I pictured my career starting. My first patient, my only patient of the night, my sole responsibility, had died, four hours into my first shift flying solo. This couldn't be happening. For Dani Jacobs, an emergency room nurse, experiencing death is almost an everyday occurrence. As a young nurse Dani wants only to stop death and help give his patients a chance at life. Yet as each code blue comes into his life, a new struggle begins to burden the young nurse. Follow Dani along the highs and lows with his patients as he faces what he fears most in life, death.