Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring by Susan J. Farese

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


At some point in our lives, we need healthcare. Trust me, you were born, enough said.

Reading these poems, I felt the love, compassion, heart, pain, turmoil, and service our nurses and loved ones go through when health becomes the front-line thought.

No one wants to go through health concerns, but it’s a part of living and dying.

Reading Susan’s poems bring us an insight into the nurses’ perspective, which is absolutely beautiful.

Reading the poem of her grandmother brought me to tears as we are currently experiencing it with my father. It helped me realize that I can remember him as he was before the disease took over. Then the tribute poem to Donna makes us realize how short life is.

There are happy moments, like the little girl who gets her transplant.

Some of you may think I’m telling spoilers, but trust me; they’re not. This book isn’t about who lived or died like works of fiction.

What Susan wrote is about emotions. This book is about each nurse’s feelings, caring for every single human being on the face of this earth.

This book is about the moments spent with these patients, and their family members, who are going through the times in their life that either they never expected, wished for or weren’t prepared for.

The nurses are always there before, during, and after, just like when you came into this world. We ask them to leave it all in the hospitals or wherever they serve and go home to raise their families as if they were robots without feelings.

This book is their story.

Bravo, Susan. Please continue to be the light that the world needs, and I am blessed to have had you come on The Authors Porch podcast. When you read Anne’s Zest to us all, allowing us to slow down momentarily, basking in the beautiful story of resiliency and love.

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