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Ninety Seconds: What Nursing Taught Me Between Breakdowns and Bad Shifts
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ISBN13: 9798191405483
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some shifts remind you why you became a nurse.Others remind you why coffee was invented.
After fifteen years in emergency medicine, detox, behavioral health, military clinics, management, and the Director of Nursing role, Cherie L. Davis has learned one unshakable truth: nursing does not reward perfection. It rewards the people who keep showing up-especially when everything falls apart.
After fifteen years in emergency medicine, detox, behavioral health, military clinics, management, and the Director of Nursing role, Cherie L. Davis has learned one unshakable truth: nursing does not reward perfection. It rewards the people who keep showing up-especially when everything falls apart.
Ninety Seconds is not a textbook. It is not a list of inspirational quotes or five easy steps to avoid burnout. It is the honest, funny, and deeply human collection of lessons learned between codes, cold coffee, supply-closet tears, and the quiet moments that never make the chart.
Inside these pages you'll find:
- Why you can do everything right and still have a terrible shift
- Why it's quiet today is the most dangerous sentence in healthcare
- How the strongest nurses cry for exactly ninety seconds behind closed doors-then walk back out and keep caring
- What detox, behavioral health, and the emergency department teach about people, pride, and second chances
- Why leadership means taking the blame and sharing the credit
- How small acts of kindness become the memories patients never forget
- And why success is never measured by promotions-but by the lives you quietly change
Written with raw honesty, dark humor, and fierce compassion, Ninety Seconds speaks directly to new graduates, seasoned bedside nurses, charge nurses, managers, and anyone who has ever survived a twelve-hour shift that felt like three.
If you've ever closed a supply closet door just long enough to wipe your face and walk back out like nothing happened...this book is for you.
Because the world doesn't need perfect nurses.It needs the ones who stay.
Inside these pages you'll find:
- Why you can do everything right and still have a terrible shift
- Why it's quiet today is the most dangerous sentence in healthcare
- How the strongest nurses cry for exactly ninety seconds behind closed doors-then walk back out and keep caring
- What detox, behavioral health, and the emergency department teach about people, pride, and second chances
- Why leadership means taking the blame and sharing the credit
- How small acts of kindness become the memories patients never forget
- And why success is never measured by promotions-but by the lives you quietly change
Written with raw honesty, dark humor, and fierce compassion, Ninety Seconds speaks directly to new graduates, seasoned bedside nurses, charge nurses, managers, and anyone who has ever survived a twelve-hour shift that felt like three.
If you've ever closed a supply closet door just long enough to wipe your face and walk back out like nothing happened...this book is for you.
Because the world doesn't need perfect nurses.It needs the ones who stay.
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